Collectivism, Individualism and Open Innovation: Introduction to the Special Issue on ‘Technology, Open Innovation, Markets and Complexity’

This paper explores how sustainability can be achieved through open innovation in the current 4th industrial revolution. Through a literature and practice review, we identify micro- and macro-dynamics of open innovation in addition to the dynamic roles of industry, government, university, and society. In particular, the industry continuously adopts open platforms to create and maintain ecosystem innovation. The government’s role has changed from regulation control toward facilitation. Universities have become proactively engaged in multiple areas, from technology transfer to knowledge co-creation. Societies and customers have started to form new concepts, R&D, and commercialization, resulting in a shared economy. Based on the analysis, we propose a conceptual framework to understand open innovation micro- and macro-dynamics with a quadruple-helix model for social, environmental, economic, cultural, policy, and knowledge sustainability. Furthermore, this provides an overview of the special issue, “Sustainability of Economy, Society, and Environment in the 4th Industrial Revolution”, which aims to respond to the 4th industrial revolution in terms of open innovation and cyber-physics from manufacturing to the service industry.

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R&D Management Journal Special Issue “Open Innovation in the Digital Age”

R and D Management ◽

10.1111/radm.12223 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 46 (S2) ◽

pp. 706-707 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Keyword(s):

Open Innovation ◽

Digital Age ◽

Special Issue ◽

Management Journal

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Editorial — SPECIAL ISSUE ON OPEN INNOVATION AND THE INTEGRATION OF SUPPLIERS PART ONE

International Journal of Innovation Management ◽

10.1142/s1363919610002842 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 14 (04) ◽

pp. v-vii ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

ALEXANDER BREM

Keyword(s):

Open Innovation ◽

Special Issue ◽

Editorial Special Issue

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Media Innovation and Social Change: Introduction to the Special Issue

The Journal of Media Innovations ◽

10.5617/jomi.7829 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 6 (1) ◽

pp. 1-8 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Niahmh Ní Bhroin ◽

Stefania Milan

Keyword(s):

Social Change ◽

Open Innovation ◽

Research Agenda ◽

New Technologies ◽

Media Industry ◽

Special Issue ◽

The Relationship

Our purpose with this Special Issue is to present and contribute to a body of research that critically explores the relationship between media innovation and social change. In doing so, we also outline the contours of a research agenda to further develop this emerging field. Our motivation arises from a review of research published in the nine previous editions of this journal, where we explored how research about media innovations engaged with the topic of social change. We find that research in the field of media innovations has tended to focus on business and economic imperatives for media innovation, following the paradigm of research on digitalisation introduced by von Hippel’s theories of ‘democratizing innovation’ (2005), Chesbrough’s ‘open innovation’ (2006), or Tapscott and Williams, ‘Wikinomics’ (2011). As a consequence, digitalisation and the introduction of new technologies is usually unquestioningly presented as a business imperative for media industry stakeholders.

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Value capture in open innovation markets: the role of patent rights for innovation appropriation

European Journal of Innovation Management ◽

10.1108/ejim-02-2021-0114 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽

Author(s):

Marcus Holgersson ◽

Ove Granstrand

Keyword(s):

Open Innovation ◽

Business Models ◽

Innovation Management ◽

Skewed Distribution ◽

Main Function ◽

Value Capture ◽

Content Type ◽

Major Interest ◽

Innovation Markets

PurposeThe role of patents for appropriating (capturing) value from innovation investments has for decades been of major interest to both practitioners and academics in innovation management. Many studies have implicitly assumed that firms appropriate value through in-house creation and marketing of innovative products and services, and that the main function of patents is to protect the exclusive sales in product and service markets. We challenge this assumption in light of the variety of business models, strategies and markets now being available, including different organizational and market forms of open innovation.Design/methodology/approachA conceptual framework and typology of open innovation markets is developed, and the role of patents for appropriation is investigated in these markets among 172 Swedish technology-based firms.FindingsThe results show that the importance of patents has a skewed distribution with some firms rating patents very important and with a fat tail of firms rating patents less important. Most importantly, the results indicate that patents are enabling exchange and technology trade in various types of open innovation markets rather than only supporting vertically integrated business models. Thus patents were found to help rather than hinder the use of open innovation markets.Originality/valueThe paper makes two main contributions. First a theoretical reinterpretation of open innovation with a conceptualization of open innovation markets for appropriation of innovation values. Second an empirical illustration of new roles of patents for appropriating innovation values in these markets. The paper in addition illustrates the use of a counterfactual approach to questionnaire surveys, as well as the complementarities between patents and other means of appropriation.

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