The concept of open innovation (OI) has become a very popular topic during the last decade, with an increasing number of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) embracing OI practices to gain competitive advantage. With the majority of publications focusing on large firms, open innovation in...

Purpose Open innovation in start-ups is a relatively unexplored field and studies focusing on collaborative innovation between start-ups with large companies seen from the former’s point of view are virtually inexistent. The authors address this gap in an exploratory study built on in-depth...

Purpose: Innovation ecosystems have not been defined univocally. The authors compare the different approaches to innovation ecosystems in the literature, the link with open innovation, the value creating and value capturing processes in innovation ecosystems, and the need to orchestrate them...

Purpose: Boundary-spanning exploration through establishing alliances is an effective strategy to explore technologies beyond local search in innovating firms. The purpose of this paper is to argue that it is useful to make a distinction in boundary-spanning exploration between what a firm...

The following sections are included: <ul><li class="bullet">Introduction</li></ul> <ul><li class="bullet">Literature Review <ul><li class="bullet"> Closed versus open innovation</li><li class="bullet"> Empirical research on open innovation: A state-of-the-art</li><li class="bullet"> Need for a dynamic perspective on open innovation</li></ul> <p></li></ul> <ul><li class="bullet">Methodology <ul><li class="bullet"> Data</li><li class="bullet"> Variables <ul><li class="bullet"> Reliance on external and internal information sources</li><li class="bullet">...</li></ul></li></ul></li></ul></p>

The following sections are included: <ul><li class="bullet">Introduction</li></ul> <ul><li class="bullet">Relative Strengths of the Open Innovation and R&D Globalization Literature <ul><li class="bullet"> Open innovation</li><li class="bullet"> R&D globalization</li><li class="bullet"> Assessment of open innovation and global R&D research achievements</li></ul> <p></li></ul> <ul><li class="bullet">Enriching Open Innovation with Insights from the R&D Globalization...</li></ul></p>

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Few studies on open innovation (OI) address OI practices in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and how their use of OI and the resulting benefits differ from those of large enterprises. The lack of resources in SMEs to engage in looking outward is said to be a barrier to OI, but at the...

This paper examines the relationship between (outside-in) open innovation and the financial performance of R&D projects, drawing on a unique dataset that contains information on the open innovation practices, management and performance of 489 R&D projects of a large European multinational firm....

The purpose of this paper is to contribute to a more dynamic perspective on open innovation by conducting a longitudinal analysis of the adoption of open innovation strategies. In order to do so, we rely on three comparable waves of the Dutch Community Innovation Survey, which were conducted in...