
Design-Based Learning to Enhance Absorptive Capacity for Open Innovation
The Emerald Insight website posted a study which explores how learning processes supported by intensive use of design can favor absorptive capacity in open innovation contexts characterized by the interaction of a high number of diverse stakeholders. The findings provide evidence about the role of design-based learning to facilitate intra- and inter-organizational
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Effects of Open Innovation Strategies on Innovation Performance of SMEs
The Emerald Insight website posted a study whose purpose is to investigate the relationships between two types of open innovation (OI) strategies (OI breadth and depth) and innovation performance of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in China. The study examines how firms’ absorptive capacity
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Absorbing In-Bound Knowledge Within Open Innovation Processes
The Emerald Insight website posted a study which investigated the way companies involved in Open Innovation Processes routinize the procedure through which they can absorb in-bound knowledge, using a case study of Fiat Chrysler. In-bound knowledge passes through the phases of acquisition, assimilation,
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The Challenge of Adaptation
The Futurelearn website posed the question, how can we create the right conditions for successful open innovation? Two things matter: absorptive capacity, and how we build our relationships. We have to be able to draw information and knowledge from our open innovation networks and be ready and able to
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Four Essential Steps Towards Open Innovation Success
The Creax website noted that although ‘open innovation’ is the talk of the town in R&D circles, leveraging external sources of innovation remains challenging for most companies. In 2013, researchers Dr. Joel West and Dr. Marcel Bogers suggested a four-phase model for inbound innovation projects.
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