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Investigating Open Government for Social Innovation
The R&D Management journal posted an article which noted that in recent years, public sector organizations have increasingly focused on citizen contribution by adopting instruments known from open innovation. A more open approach to innovation has become dominant in innovation management during the last decade. Recently, scholars argued that
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Creativity and Stakeholders’ Engagement in Open Innovation
The Journal of Business Research posted a paper which investigates the role of design as a knowledge translation mechanism for social creativity in technology-intensive enterprises’ open innovation practices. The focus is on how design can be used to connect and combine the contribution of creativity
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Open for Innovation: Why Engaged Firms Are More Creative
The Bertelsmann Stiftung website posted a report which discussed how soft knowledge flows from businesses’ corporate citizenship activities can enrich the hard business of innovation. Beyond conventional Open Innovation (OI) partnerships with startups, suppliers or universities, business-civil society
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The Dynamics of Openness and the Role of User Communities
The IEEE Journal posted an article which noted that to remain competitive, it is critical for firms to integrate external sources of knowledge. However, finding the right degree of openness is challenging, especially in complex open innovation ecosystems. This paper investigates the role of openness
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Corporate Venturing: How Much Autonomy Will Maximize Impact?
The IESE Insight website website reported on a new study on how companies can best maximize the impact from corporate venturing. Chief innovation officers know that corporate venturing — the collaboration between established firms and innovative startups — can yield strong results. Its
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Developing New Open Business Models
The Sage Publication website reported on a study which noted that companies can create value by effectively applying and managing open business models. The study used examples from Unilever to show how a firm can combine and integrate its assets, capabilities and skills with those of its partners to
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Open Innovation Maturity Framework
The Information Age website reported that the Open Innovation Maturity Framework, developed by researchers and published in the International Journal of Innovation Management, offers another option for formally improving performance and innovation, and moving beyond a compliance-based mindset. This
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Open Innovation and Innovation Intermediaries in Sub-Saharan Africa
The journal Sustainability p0sted a study which explores the innovation intermediaries’ landscape in sub-Saharan Africa, considering Science Granting Councils (SGCs) as the key intermediaries in the system. The results of the analysis corroborate the need for institutional and systemic changes
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How Does a Social Open Innovation Succeed?
The Science, Technology, and Society journal posted an article which noted that as people are paying attention to social innovation as the source of innovative ideas and the repository of new business models, this study poses the following research questions: How does a social open innovation succeed?
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Using Open Innovation to Address a Societal Challenge
The Wiley Online Library website posted a study which appeared in the journal R&D Management which explores how a community uses open innovation over time to tackle a global societal challenge. The study developed a process model that describes how inbound, outbound, and coupled open innovation
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