Open innovation is about firms’ external relations with other firms and organisations. It is a topic which has attracted an immense amount of attention, but which has also been heavily criticised due to the diversity of the ideas and fuzziness of its key concepts. To date, the bulk of the...

The paper focuses on the interaction mode of collaborative relationships by SMEs. We distinguish between conventional interaction and computer-mediated interaction. Three characteristics in interaction play a role: the partner type, the spatial reach and the nature of knowledge. The paper uses...