A FRAMEWORK FOR OPEN INNOVATION ASSESSMENT

Innovation is the key for an organization to achieve sustainable development. Open innovation which emphasizes the integration of internal and external resources in an organization has brought about a new perspective in technological developments. In order to promote and ensure the performance of the open innovation, an assessment framework and the evaluation indicators are required. This study extracted dimensions from literatures and propose knowledge operation is an important element as well as knowledge exploitation and exploration in open innovation practice. After compiling opinions from both academic researchers and business experts and flowed into hierarchy analysis, "non-R&D employee involvement" was the most significant. The developed indicators were conducted in a survey to nine industrial parks and one science park to verify the reliability of assessment. The results reflected that the medium size company which has capability and awareness in open innovation usually falls into lower performance than they expected.