Knowledge Transfer in Open Innovation

The Emeral Insight website posted a study which noted that despite the abundance of research in open innovation, few contributions explore it at inter-organizational level, and particularly with a focus on healthcare ecosystem, characterized by a dense network of relationships among public and private organizations as well as other actors that can be labeled as “untraditional” players, i.e. doctors, nurses and patients. The purpose of this paper is to cover this gap and explore how knowledge is transferred and flows among all the healthcare ecosystems’ players in order to support open innovation processes. Insights gathered from open innovation literature at the inter-organizational network level,  and from the knowledge transfer processes, are analyzed in order to propose an interpretative framework for the understanding of knowledge transfer in open innovation.

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