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How to Find New Ideas Inside and Outside the Company
The Harvard Business Review website reported on a new study which noted that many companies are encouraging employees to scout for new ideas among external partners, such as universities, research institutes, competitors, and customers. Much research suggests that exposing employees to a broad range of external partners can lead to more innovation at
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Open Innovation Using Open Source Tools
The Springer website posted an article, “Open innovation using open source tools: A a case study at Sony Mobile,” which noted that despite growing interest of Open Innovation (OI) in Software Engineering (SE), little is known about what triggers software organizations to adopt it and how
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Working With Your Competitors
The University of Calgary website posted a new study from the Haskayne School of Business which examines 20 years of ‘open innovation’ in the Canadian energy industry. The authors found that industry finds it easier to employ open innovation methods to address strictly non-competitive environmental
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Crowdsourcing Gone Wrong
The Harvard Business Review website posted an article which noted that “For those who believe in the promise of open innovation, the 2009 startup Quirky was an exceptionally exciting company. Yet, in September 2015, Quirky went bankrupt. As proponents of open innovation, we have examined Quirky’s
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An Alliance Portfolio for Innovation in the Auto Industry
A study in the Journal of Open Innovation concluded that companies promoting innovation must preferentially adopt an open innovation strategy. In particular, companies should maintain a long-term cooperative partnership with a clear goal of technology acquisition, reduce alliance portfolio management
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What Kind of Innovations Do We Need to Secure Our Future?
The Journal of Open Innovation published a research study which concluded that the answer to the question of what kind of innovations we need to secure our future would be that open innovations would be what is most desired. Yet, as has also been discussed at length in the present paper, an open arrangement
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Theory of Open Inclusive Innovation
The Journal of Open Innovation posted an article which argued that the conventional understanding of open innovation theory is inadequate for dealing with emerging challenges in leveraging contingent conditions of climate risks, asymmetry of knowledge and power and lack of reciprocity and responsibility
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Network Analysis of Open Innovation
The Sustainability Journal website published a study of open innovation which noted that the way people innovate and create new ideas and bring them to the market is undergoing a fundamental change from closed innovation to open innovation. Why and how do firms perform open innovation? Firms’ open
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Smartness that Matters: Cities
The Journal of Open Innovation website posted an article which presented a comprehensive review of how smart cities are perceived in the literature and in the light of these findings propose a clearer definition. An overview of the key terms, concepts and definitions associated to smart cities, reported
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Relational Capital and Open Innovation
The Elsiver website posted an academic study which noted that open innovations are increasingly more often mentioned in the context of innovations and effective means of their development. They refer to precious ideas, which may come from the organization’s environment, or are developed in the
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