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 performance. The research identifies 16 OIP used by empirical studies and suggests that there is an inverted U-shaped relationship between the breadth of OIP and innovation performance. Furthermore, it did not find a moderating effect of the internal R&D on the above-mentioned relationship. The research helps to understand: a) what are the OIP that firms can exploit to innovate, b) how literature has used these OIP in empirical studies, and, c) if too much openness, in terms of practices, is beneficial for the firm’s innovativeness or not.

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