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Informality and Innovation: Bottom-up Industrialization for Africa?
The Research Handbook on Development and the Informal Economy has several studies on open innovation. The advantages of operating within a system of open collaborative innovation are highlighted. Through their case study open innovation is defined as the use of both individual and shared ideas, related to both internal and external market access in
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Stakeholder-Driven Conceptualization of Open Innovation Approaches in the SYNERGY Project
A new book Sustainable Design and Manufacturing 2020 has a chapter on open innovation which notes that since the late 90s, the way companies acquire novel ideas and bring resulting products to the market is in a paradigm shift moving towards open innovation concepts and making use of crowd-based approaches.
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Do Not Miss the Boat to Outside-in Open innovation
The Science Direct website posted a study which aims to empirically examine three “softer” drivers of outside-in OI (i.e., entrepreneurial culture, OI support, and OI enablement), based on a cross-industry sample of 104 firms. The results show that the relationship between entrepreneurial culture
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Walking the Tightrope of Open Innovation
The Lund University School of Economics and Management posted a study whose purpose is to gain a deeper understanding of what barriers the individual employee who performs open innovation practices is facing in the transition phase–what happens between the front-end to the back-end of the process–and
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A Strategic Design Guideline for Open Business Models
The International Journal of Automation Technology posted a study which noted that to realize a competitive product-service system, a manufacturer is required to change its closed business model and develop open and sustainable alliances with external partners. As an alternative business model, an open
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Open Innovation: A Study About the 3M and Natura – Brazil Companies
The IberoAmerican Journal of Strategic Management posted a study whose aim is to verify how Natura and 3M businesses included open innovation in their everyday practices. The results show that open innovation is understood by companies like a strategy that permeates the ecosystem to the complement of
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Helping SMEs Adopt Open Innovation
The 7th Space website reported that Singapore Management University professor Pascala Crama has launched a research project “Open Innovation systems for SMEs in Singapore.” The Project seeks to “identify, develop and test interventions which influence SMEs to increase the adoption and
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Open Collaborative Innovation Process and Their Relationship with University-Industry and Innovation Performance
The Digital Library website posted a study by Sandra Saraceni which explores whether, in open innovation practices, the knowledge that flows across organizational boundaries, during the collaborative University-Industry process, can positively affect Innovation Performance, Organizational Performance
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Managing the Challenges of Business-to-Business Open Innovation in Complex Projects
The Science Direct website posted a study which noted that research shows that knowledge sharing and system integration are two major challenges posed by openness to business partners in complex innovation projects. However, there remains limited research on the microfoundations (i.e., actions and practices)
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Technology and Strategic Surprise: Adapting to an Era of Open Innovation
An article in the The US Army War College Quarterly noted that technological revolutions affecting military innovation and state power can be either open or closed. In the twentieth century, military technological innovation was mainly closed. By contrast, in the twenty-first century technological innovation
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