Catalysing open innovation through publicly-funded R&D: A comparison of university and company-based research centres

This article reports a study that aims to formulate an outbound open innovation strategy for the exploitation of publicly funded research intellectual property in Malaysia. The outbound open innovation strategy is proposed due to the inability of the existing intellectual property commercialization strategy of Malaysian public universities to optimize the exploitation of publicly funded research intellectual property. The current strategy assumes that the best exploitation route is by way of commercialization to enable the public universities to monetize the publicly funded research intellectual property. This strategy creates a legal barrier since publicly funded research intellectual property is locked up behind proprietary rights and a rigid licensing regime. In contrast, outbound open innovation strategy allows publicly funded research intellectual property to be exploited through permissive licensing. This study employs a mixed-methods approach involving semi-structured interviews and survey questionnaires with technology licensing officers of Malaysian public universities. The output of this study is an outbound open innovation strategy which connects innovation to the intellectual property system and improves the socio-economic impact of publicly funded research intellectual property.

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Intellectual Property management in publicly funded R&D centres—A comparison of university-based and company-based research centres

Technovation ◽

10.1016/j.technovation.2008.02.004 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 28 (8) ◽

pp. 473-484 ◽

Cited By ~ 20

Author(s):

Beth Young ◽

Nola Hewitt-Dundas ◽

Stephen Roper

Keyword(s):

Intellectual Property ◽

Property Management ◽

Publicly Funded ◽

Intellectual Property Management ◽

Research Centres

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DEVELOPING INFRASTRUCTURE TO SUPPORT OPEN INNOVATION: CASE STUDIES FROM THE EAST OF ENGLAND

International Journal of Innovation and Technology Management ◽

10.1142/s0219877014400069 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 11 (01) ◽

pp. 1440006 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

TIM MINSHALL ◽

STEFAN KOURIS ◽

LETIZIA MORTARA ◽

PATRICK SCHMITHAUSEN ◽

DAVID WEISS

Keyword(s):

Case Studies ◽

Open Innovation ◽

Publicly Funded ◽

Regional Innovation Systems ◽

Regional Innovation ◽

Business Incubation ◽

Stakeholder Interests ◽

Innovation Infrastructure ◽

Multi Stakeholder ◽

Innovation Policies

This paper investigates the role that publicly funded infrastructure can play in supporting the implementation of open innovation at particular locations. Three case studies of open innovation infrastructure projects in the East of England illustrate contrasting approaches to delivering an infrastructure to support open innovation. The paper analyzes the cases using concepts from the literature on open innovation, regional innovation systems and business incubation. The cases reveal insights on how emerging management theories can have direct influence on regional innovation policies, and reveal the complexities of managing changing multi-stakeholder interests in relation to an approach to supporting innovation whose success is inherently hard to measure.

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Design elements of innovation contests supporting Open Innovation in SMEs - An action research study

Journal of Innovation Management ◽

10.24840/2183-0606_008.004_0003 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 8 (4) ◽

pp. 26-56

Author(s):

NICOLA DOPPIO ◽

Satu Väinämö ◽

Lotta Haukipuro

Keyword(s):

Open Innovation ◽

Research Study ◽

Common Elements ◽

Design Elements ◽

Innovation Intermediaries ◽

Early Evidence ◽

Research Centres ◽

Shed Light ◽

Innovation Policies ◽

New Framework

While innovation contests and intermediaries are widely used in large companies to source knowledge from the outside, it is not clear how contests could be utilized to break the barriers that SMEs face in pursuing Open Innovation. In this paper, we shed light on the topic by analysing ten innovation contests that have been successfully run in three European countries with the specific aim to create innovation opportunities between SMEs and higher education institutions, research centres, other companies, or end users. The analysis resulted in the identification of common elements that played a crucial role in these innovation contests, but were overlooked in previous research. Moreover, we collected early evidence supporting the case for innovation contests as tools to support Open Innovation policies for SMEs. On that basis, we propose a new framework that can be used by innovation intermediaries to design innovation contests specifically aiming at supporting Open Innovation in SMEs.

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