The existing literature on open innovation mostly concentrates on large firms. Little is known about the role of open innovation in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). In this paper we explore how SMEs engage in open innovation search. We draw upon a new survey of 1,489 SMEs. Results...

The concept of open innovation lies at the heart of the current research debate on innovation and strategy. Existing literature indicates that firms vitalize their interest in opening their innovation processes and business models to commercialize not only their own ideas but also external ones....

In our recent open innovation executive studies, we learned that open innovation is of strategic value for large firms and an important topic for C-level executives (Chesbrough and Brunswicker 2014, Bagherzadeh and Brunswicker 2015). Large firms increasingly invest in open innovation, and there...

The established stream of literature on design architectures argues that designers should aim for modular architecture in order increase the system’s technical performance by lowering the propagation costs of the system’s design: A system with a small stable “core”, a cycle of coupled...

This paper provides an overview of the main perspectives and themes emerging in research on open innovation. The paper is the result of a collaborative process among several open innovation scholars — having a common basis in the recurrent Professional Development Workshop (PDW) on...

Contemporary service organizations create value through multiple inter-organizational relationships. The relationships between the service organization and its customer have been the dominating focus in literature on value co-creation in large service organizations. This paper introduces the...

Innovation management is a key driver for sustainable and profitable growth of enterprises - and hence for the competitiveness of Europe. To increase the innovation management capabilities the European Commission has launched an initiative to develop and test better services in innovation...

In an age of unprecedented virtual, mediated, and distributed collaboration, information transparency and its effects on social interaction, knowledge sharing, and decision making has attracted tremendous scholarly interest in various disciplines, with mixed and often contradicting results. We...

This paper examines reuse patterns in transparent multi-staged contests, in which a crowd of developers can reuse others’ designs when developing a novel digital application. They compete for the best application, one that is of high quality in both code and feature. Transparency, defined as...