Beyond Prizes: How and Why Some SMEs Benefit From Participating in Open Innovation Contests
The ProQuest website posted a study which noted that large enterprises and government agencies are increasingly collaborating with entrepreneurs and innovative small-to-medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to solve complex challenges. One of the key approaches to collaboration is to organize an open innovation contest (OIC). Researchers have studied OICs
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The Effect of Open Innovation Strategies on Business Models in the Automotive Sector
The Inder Science Online website posted an article which explores how the adoption of an open innovation strategy changes the business model, specifically, in the case of small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Previous studies have mainly addressed this topic theoretically, and the original contribution
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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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The Naval Technology website reported that the French company Naval Group has launched a research and development center of excellence in Singapore to develop world-class expertise for strategic naval defense research topics. In June this year, the company organized Start We Up, an innovation marathon
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A comparative stakeholder approach for developing open innovation activities in SMEs
The Science Direct website posted an study which noted that recent literature on open innovation (OI) highlights the need for studies regarding the factors that influence firms to switch from a closed to an OI strategy. At the same time, stakeholder literature points out the scarcity of knowledge regarding
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Trade Secrets and Trade Secret Asset Management
The JDSupra site noted that open innovation can take many forms. It can include working with universities, cooperating closely with key suppliers and vendors, collaborating with application developers, content providers, technology house and design houses, working with various communities including ‘open’
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Open Innovation and SMEs Performance in Oil and Gas Industry
The South African Journal of Economic and Management Sciences posted an article which seeks to identify the factors of inbound open innovation and whether these factors influence the financial performance of small and medium-sized enterprises in the Nigerian oil and gas industry. The results show
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S. African Space Agency & Airbus launch Open Innovation Challenge
The Itnewsafrica website reported that the South African National Space Agency (SANSA) together with Airbus Defense and Space have launched an Open Innovation Challenge project which is aimed at developing and supporting home-grown applications for earth observation data obtained by satellites. The
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