1: Introduction to Co-Innovation Platforms -- 2: Platforms: What and How? -- 3: What is Co-Innovation? -- 4: Building Successful Co-Innovation Platforms -- 5: Remaining Frictionless: Intellectual Property -- 6: Bringing it all together.

Factors that affect a firm’s ability to achieve an advantage may differ from those that affect its ability to sustain that advantage. Moreover, if advantage is a relative concept then studies that relate resource stocks to ‘absolute’ outcomes say little about how resources contribute to...

Many studies argue that the continual creation of new ideas by small and young firms steadily destroys the competitive positions of their larger, more established rivals. Despite this attention, empirical results relating firm size to innovation remain exceedingly fragile. This paper proposes...

Ask any group of organizational leaders from any business sector what keeps them awake at night and arguably 'managing the pace of change' will appear at the top of the list. The concern does not focus on one or two strategic changes. Rather the concern is whether every program, unit,...

Internet-based collaboration technologies provide organizations new and valuable tools to engage online communities in innovation. We argue that effectively leveraging internet-based collaboration technologies and online communities for product innovation requires careful consideration of a...