The role of external parties in the innovation efforts has received much attention on the firm-level, but there are less studies on open innovation projects. This is surprising, since projects are frequently used to carry out open innovation activities. In this study, a systematic literature...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyse how consumer emotions towards innovation change over online discussions. Design/methodology/approach – This is an empirical study based on substantial data collected from 22 discussion forums, of which the ten longest discussions on...