After more than a decade of widespread global R&D expansion, top managers in multinational companies take decentralized competencies for granted, expecting their international research and product development functions to deliver results. However, based on more than 150 in-depth interviews and...

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>

Foreign firms patent in emerging economies with weak appropriability regimes at an increasing rate. This phenomenon constitutes a paradox since in such a setting foreign firms should have weak incentives to patent. In an attempt to resolve this paradox, we conducted an inductive analysis of 11...

In this introduction, we discuss the recent changes in multinational corporations' (MNCs) research and development (R&D) strategies and China's rising role in this new development. Significant changes include: 1) More and more corporations have started overseas R & D operations; 2) the missions...

The following sections are included: <ul><li class="bullet">Introduction</li></ul> <ul><li class="bullet">Open Innovation in Turbulent Environments</li></ul> <ul><li class="bullet">Types of External Sources for Open Innovation in Turbulent Settings</li></ul> <ul><li class="bullet">Methods <ul><li class="bullet"> Data and sample</li><li class="bullet"> Measures <ul><li class="bullet"> Open innovation</li><li class="bullet"> Innovation success</li><li class="bullet"> Environmental turbulence</li><li class="bullet"> Controls</li></ul> <p></li><li class="bullet"> Results</li></ul> <p></li></ul> <ul><li class="bullet">Conclusion and...</li></ul></p></p>

In open innovation systems, capturing value through external intellectual property (IP) commercialization is an increasingly important strategy for firms to keep pace with competitive changes. However, many firms have major difficulties in creating value through external patent exploitation. To...