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How to Fight Rare Diseases with Radically Open Innovation
The Economist website reported that when told he would die and be given the last rites, a medical student decided to hunt for a cure from his hospital bed. He found one and survived. Now a doctor in his own right, David Fajgenbaum is pioneering a new approach to fighting rare diseases through an open model of medical innovation. Where the current system
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Open Innovation: High Hopes and Many Challenges
The ProQuest website posted the abstract and beginning of an article which noted that during recent years different variants of IT-enabled public sector open innovation have been proposed as ways of overcoming the difficulties that public sector organizations face in terms of – on one side –
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How Does Open Innovation Lead Competitive Advantage?
The Plos One website noted that the relationship between open innovation and a company’s competitive advantage, and organizational capabilities required remains to be explained. This study was conducted to answer the following questions: Does open innovation create organization’s competitive
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Managing Open Innovation: A Project-Level Perspective
The IEEExpress website noted that project-level studies on open innovation management are still scant and there is a lack of quantitative insights. Based on a survey designed to collect detailed data from 201 innovation projects, this article provides a quantitative cross-project analysis of how two,
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The Purchasing Innovation Function, an Interface Player in Open Innovation
The HAL website reported that the benefits of Open Innovation, and specifically of innovation coming from suppliers, are widely emphasized by the literature. In parallel, the difficulties of implementing such approaches are also underlined, and the necessity of creating new roles is emphasized for managing
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A New Approach for Detecting Open Innovation in Patents
The Springer website posted an article from The Journal of Technology Transfer which discusses to what extent open innovation is utilized in R&D departments by using patents as a main source. The paper adopts the “designation of the inventor” as a new method for detecting open or closed innovation,
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A Theory of Resource Openness
The Researchgate website posted a research paper which noted that many firms have opened once proprietary information resources (e.g., digital content, code, and APIs) to public use via the Internet. Such open strategies challenge traditional resource-level theories that suggest protecting such resources
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Assessing the Breadth of Open Innovation Practices
Sinergie, the Italian Journal of Management, posted a research paper which first, aims to identify open innovation practices (OIP) used by empirical studies in the context of the open innovation (OI) field. Second, it aims to test the inverted U-shaped relationship between the breadth of OIP and innovation
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The Relationship Between Open Innovation and Crowdsourcing
The Researchgate website posted an article which noted that there are two important differences between open innovation and crowdsourcing. First, the knowledge inflows/outflows of open innovation often take place between parties with ex ante contracts or other commitments. For example, technology alliances,
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In Search of Disruptive Ideas
The InsideScienceOnline website noted that the key challenge for data science in open innovation web systems is to find best ideas among thousands of community submissions. To date, this has been done with metrics reflecting enterprise needs or community preferences. This article proposes to look in
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