overview of theories, concepts and especially empirical results on open innovation and the integration of suppliers. For this … Concepts:</i></b> <ul> <li>Advancing a Typology of Open Innovation <i>(Peter Gianiodis, Scott C Ellis and Enrico Secchi …)</i></li> <li>Open Innovation and the Integration of Suppliers ¡ª Literature Review and Discussion on Supplier Innovation <i …

In this paper, we develop and test a firm-level contingency model of inbound open innovation in an attempt to … contribute to explaining the substantial disparities in open innovation payoff that exist between firms. Integrating elements … from the resource- and knowledge-based views and the absorptive capacity literature, we propose that specific innovation …

The paper describes findings from a multiple case study about the innovation management challenges of a system … integrator (SI) whose operation is characterized by a high demand of innovation and whose focus of integration capabilities is … the methodology of qualitative research. Innovation networks orchestrated by the SI were categorized, according to the way …

organizations, especially firms. This conception is reflected in a producer-oriented approach to science, technology and innovation … policy-making (STI). However a new understanding of the role of users within innovation processes is gradually taking shape … not captured by general statistics on innovation. Up to now the only exception is the empirical evidence-based study of …

organizations, especially firms. This conception is reflected in a producer-oriented approach to science, technology and innovation … policy-making (STI). However a new understanding of the role of users within innovation processes is gradually taking shape … not captured by general statistics on innovation. Up to now the only exception is the empirical evidence-based study of …

A number of recent works point towards open innovation as a new imperative for innovation management. Within more … traditional and conservative high-tech sectors such as aerospace, however, the literature on open innovation is fairly limited … perspectives from a study whose goal is to identify the implications of the innovation openness paradigm to the product development …

challenges and to facilitate innovation activities in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), especially high … paradigm. The article sheds light on the need for a coupling between management and innovation studies in relation to SMEs …Managing innovation in smaller firms imposes challenges of a specific nature. Such challenges include scarcity of …

Warum sind manche Unternehmen innovativer als andere, was entscheidet über den Erfolg einer Innovation, weshalb ist ein … Metall- und Elektroindustrie inklusive der Kunststoffindustrie analysiert. Die Bedeutung von »Innovation« sowie deren … erfolgreichen Innovation als schwierig plan- und steuerbar. Diese Problematik wird in modernen Organisationsstrukturen, wie »Open …

vary in different types of customer involvement in innovation. The work applied the qualitative methodology of multiple … Finland and in the Netherlands that are practicing open innovation with their customers in one form or another. For the … analysis of challenges identified from the empirical data, a typology of open innovation with customers was built, resulting in …

can they manage and drive collective innovation? We first build on a review of the literature to highlight common core … innovation intermediaries by exploring the properties of a form of intermediary for which the degree of unknown is a key …