scholarly journals Trouble in Paradise? Barriers to Open Innovation in Regional Clusters in the Era of the 4th Industrial Revolution

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marita McPhillips
Keyword(s):  
Open Innovation ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Public Support ◽  
Regional Innovation ◽  
Innovation Ecosystem ◽  
Innovation Activities ◽  
Innovation Intermediaries ◽  
Nation Wide Survey ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Innovation Processes

The purpose of this paper is to provide an insight into the barriers faced by clusters as open innovation intermediaries. Literature review and an empirical study were performed, involving a nation-wide survey, case studies, and in-depth interviews with cluster actors involved in open innovation activities. This article conceptually links open innovation and clusters in the context of the fourth industrial revolution, empirically identifies barriers hindering open innovation in clusters, and indicates factors that might affect the open innovation processes in networked ecosystems. The findings confirm that the perception of barriers hindering open innovation in clusters differs between clusters already implementing open innovation and those which are still not active in this area. The findings contribute to a comprehensive understanding of the potential roles of clusters as open innovation intermediaries in the context of transitioning economies. With clusters playing a role in open innovation intermediary, public support at cluster level could increase openness to cooperation not only for member companies, but all participants in the regional innovation ecosystem.

scholarly journals External Knowledge Sourcing and Innovation Processes in Modern Economic Environment

2017 ◽  
Vol 53 (2) ◽  
pp. 39-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dorota Roszkowska
Keyword(s):  
Open Innovation ◽  
Virtual Communities ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Theoretical Background ◽  
Innovation Networks ◽  
Innovation Ecosystem ◽  
Global Networks ◽  
Innovation Activities ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Innovation Processes

AbstractIn an open and digital economy where ICTs, global networks and innovation systems play a key economic role, knowledge used by companies is increasingly gathered using different external sources. Rapidly changing technology enables companies to use new ways to innovate. New innovation processes permit companies to reduce risk and the costs of innovation. New paradigms, called open innovation and co-innovation, allow organizations to remain innovative in a rapidly changing environment. The objectives of this paper are: to provide a better understanding of open innovation and co-innovation paradigms and to suggest instruments for organizations to benefit from co-innovation ecosystem.Internet empowered ICT tools can be the first step for an organization to initiate implementation of a digital strategy. To gain incremental, tacit, organizational knowledge or marketing skills, a new innovation strategy should involve networking through social networks and virtual communities. Digitalization of innovation activities constitutes a new important role for innovation networks and ecosystems, including global innovation networks, as knowledge and technology are no longer owned by a single firm or country. This paper attempts to prepare the theoretical background, for empirical studies on the impact of new innovation processes on company innovation and their competitive advantages. The study is descriptive and analytical, building on the theory and empirical results of previous studies on new, digital innovation models.

Regional Economic Growth and Open Innovation Platforms

2019 ◽  
pp. 163-184 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leyla Ayvarovna Gamidullaeva ◽  
Sergey Mikhailovich Vasin ◽  
Vardan Mkrttchian
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Open Innovation ◽  
Economic Systems ◽  
Regional Innovation ◽  
Innovation Ecosystem ◽  
Regional Economic ◽  
Managerial Practices ◽  
The World ◽  
High Level ◽  
Innovation Processes

R&D is increasingly becoming globalized and implemented on a collaborative basis. It leads to the need for search of partners, resources, and ideas from outside the company. Currently authorities all over the world have a tendency to develop regional economic systems into regional innovation ecosystems. It in turn creates new challengers to the innovation intermediaries. The chapter is devoted to the search for ways to unite the innovation ecosystem concept with the theory of innovation intermediation, emphasizing specific types of innovation intermediation and fundamental mechanisms thereof, supporting incentives and the role in the innovation ecosystem. Hence, there needs to be a shift to the network organization of infrastructure that ensures a high level of participants' cooperation. Moreover, end-users of innovations are being considered as key actors in the innovation processes. The research results may be implemented into managerial practices in order to improve the competitiveness of regional economic systems.

scholarly journals Assessing the Effectiveness of Social and Political Innovations in the Development of Interaction between the Authorities and the Population during COVID-19: The Implication of Open Innovation

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 172
Author(s):  
Elena Kranzeeva ◽  
Evgeny Golovatsky ◽  
Anna Orlova ◽  
Natalia Nyatina ◽  
Anna Burmakina
Keyword(s):  
Open Innovation ◽  
Remote Access ◽  
Border Region ◽  
Regional Innovation ◽  
Data Format ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
Innovation Activities ◽  
Political Interaction ◽  
Social Graphs ◽  
Regions Of Russia

Open innovations combine the interaction of the authorities and the population in regions of Russia. Social and political interaction of Russian network users demonstrates new open forms of political participation, mobilization practices (initiative appeals, petitions), the use of expert systems data, and remote access technologies. The increasing number of initiatives and the growth of online communities involved in the discussion and adjustment of the results of innovation activities require the use of a big data format. The demand for open innovation based on the principles of transparency of social and political interactions is being updated during COVID-19. This study aims to assess the effectiveness of open innovations in social and political interactions during COVID-19. The innovative practices of communication between the population and authorities were studied using DataMining tools based on digital platforms: “Russian Public Initiative”, “Change.org” and “GoogleTrends”. Users’ social graphs represent the visualization in terms of thematic and territorial groupings. The results obtained allow for a conclusion about the dependence of the regional innovation activities on the openness of their communications and their location relative to authoritative and other types of resources. The physical location of the region (center–border region–periphery) and dependence on implementation at the federal, regional or municipal levels are circumstances influencing the effectiveness of social and political innovations.

MAPPING THE PERCEPTION AND REALITY OF OPEN INNOVATION

2013 ◽  
Vol 17 (06) ◽  
pp. 1340016 ◽  
Author(s):  
JUSTYNA DĄBROWSKA ◽  
IRINA FIEGENBAUM ◽  
ANTERO KUTVONEN
Keyword(s):  
Open Innovation ◽  
Innovation Management ◽  
Innovation Process ◽  
Innovation Research ◽  
Innovation Activities ◽  
Current State ◽  
Business Practitioners ◽  
The Right ◽  
Innovation Practices ◽  
Innovation Processes

Open innovation holds great potential for improving the efficiency of companies' innovation processes, but also presents substantial risks. A key issue in innovation management is finding the right balance of openness, i.e., determining how open companies should be in their innovation activities. However, academics and business practitioners hold conflicting notions of what constitutes open innovation practice and of how "open innovation companies" are defined. In this paper, we present three in-depth case studies of global R&D-intensive companies, where we find that the firms' perception of their openness differs from their actual situation (as determined by the innovation practices that they apply), and that each company has a different view as to what constitutes open innovation. We claim that resolving conceptual ambiguity and differentiating between openness (as a philosophical aspect) and open innovation (as a way of structuring the innovation process) in research is critical in order to clarify the current state of open innovation research and enable the communication of results to practitioners.

Innovation Dynamics Through the Encouragement of Knowledge Spin-Off From Touristic Destinations

2022 ◽  
pp. 170-190
Author(s):  
Sofia Vairinho
Keyword(s):  
New Technology ◽  
University Research ◽  
Research Centers ◽  
Regional Innovation ◽  
Innovation Ecosystem ◽  
The Public ◽  
Regional Cluster ◽  
Innovation Dynamics ◽  
Innovation Clusters ◽  
Innovation Processes

The present approach aims to explore the innovation dynamic that may lead to knowledge opportunities in a specific regional cluster characterized by a strong touristic positioning. The new technology-based companies, namely the spin-out created from university research, represent a possible and reliable approach to the economy stimulation. This said, it is mandatory to explore the topics that will allow a reflection on the networks associated with innovation processes, developed from the relations between the public universe (including universities and research centers), and the new technology or humanistic based companies. This chapter intends to be a contribution to the discussion of innovation clusters and sets the preliminary issues to discuss and implement an innovation ecosystem. This chapter explores and reflects the importance of regional innovation clusters dynamics, setting and describing the steps and specific strategical procedures in order to implement an innovation ecosystem, using as example a specific touristic territory.

scholarly journals To the question of the prospects for the formation of an innovation ecosystem in Kazakhstan

2021 ◽  
Vol 116 ◽  
pp. 00035
Author(s):  
Zulfia Magrupova ◽  
Kashamida Tazhibekova ◽  
Aigerim Shametova ◽  
Kulzira Abdraimova ◽  
Kyrmyzy Tursyngaliyeva
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Innovation Activity ◽  
Innovative Development ◽  
Innovation Ecosystem ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Innovation Activities ◽  
Knowledge Based Economy ◽  
Innovation Cycle ◽  
The Republic ◽  
State Programs

The article presents the results of research on innovation activity based on the analysis of the directions of innovative development of Kazakhstan and suggests a set of measures, the implementation of which will allow building a connected system of measures for the formation of an innovative ecosystem. The main focus is given to improving the efficiency of innovation activities based on an institutional approach, which is aimed at the formation of a stable system of relationships between participants in the innovation cycle, each of which is individually interested in improving competitiveness based on the use of innovations. The formation of an innovation ecosystem also includes the development of two innovation clusters as the basis for the formation of a knowledge-based economy. Based on the analysis provided, we concluded that the organization of innovative infrastructure did not provide the required pace of innovative development of Kazakhstan for a number of reasons. To date, the Republic has successfully implemented state programs that aim to create conditions for the transition to the fourth industrial revolution. The focus on innovative development remains important and mandatory for achieving the goals set out in the program documents.

scholarly journals Why Open Innovation is Easier Said Than Done: An Organizational Identity Perspective

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 47-67
Author(s):  
Maral Mahdad ◽  
Chiara E. De Marco ◽  
Andrea Piccaluga ◽  
Alberto Di Minin
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Identity ◽  
Open Innovation ◽  
Organizational Transformation ◽  
Identity Transformation ◽  
Identity Change ◽  
Innovation Ecosystem ◽  
Managerial Skills ◽  
Innovation Activities ◽  
Identity Ambiguity ◽  
University Scientists

In this article, we explore and interpret organizational identity transformation associated with open innovation strategy of the largest telecommunication company in Italy, Telecom Italia (TIM). When TIM established eight joint laboratories within five major Italian universities to benefit from opening its business model, it transferred some of the R&D employees to the new laboratories to work with the university scientists. This organizational transformation created underexplored conditions for R&D employees engaged in the open innovation activities of the firm. Our interpretive phenomenological analysis (IPA) answers the question of “How do R&D employees experience organizational identity change in the process of open innovation?”. We based our analysis on interpreting lived experiences of 14 employees. Studying the phenomena of organizational identity change during the process of open innovation implementation suggests the following: (1) The process of open innovation through mobility of skilled R&D employees triggers organizational identity ambiguity and change, (2) Organizational identity ambiguity phase in the process of open innovation can be shortened by the support of parent company and managerial skills highlighting sensemaking mechanisms, (3) Constructing a shared organizational identity with university members involved in this process is an undeniable element of OI success for this strategy. We contribute to the literature by establishing linkages among organizational identity and open innovation and by building on recent works on the role of individuals within open innovation ecosystem. Our qualitative analysis draws on a conceptual framework for open innovation and organizational identity transformation.

scholarly journals Analysis of Open Innovation Practices in Malaysian SMEs

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 248
Author(s):  
Ashkan Rangamiztousi ◽  
Kamariah Bt Ismail
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Open Innovation ◽  
Innovation Adoption ◽  
High Rank ◽  
Quantitative Methodology ◽  
Statistical Procedures ◽  
Innovation Activities ◽  
Innovation Practices ◽  
Inside Out ◽  
Innovation Processes

Open Innovation is a phenomenon that has become increasingly important due to found shorter innovation cycles, industrial R&D escalating costs as well as in the dearth of resources. Researchers have suggested various kinds of practices and ways to categorized them. However, most of prior studies only used some of the practices to measured open innovation, but the measurements were very generic as some practices are broadly defined, and the list of open innovation activities not included new activities and completed list of practices. Hence, it is crucial to identify a new list of open innovation practices and study on similar practices in developing countries to help their companies understand open innovation and its practices as well. This study reviewing prior studies on open innovation adoption published between 2003 and March 2014 and identified 36 different practices. Therefore, we created a new list of open innovation practices that cover most of strategies and practices mentioned in prior studies. This study used quantitative methodology, 400 high rank executives manager of Malaysia SMEs participated and completed the survey and further analyzed using the appropriate statistical procedures. The results indicated that Malaysian SMEs use three core processes of open innovation including coupled, outside-in, and inside-out practices in their open innovation processes, respectively. 

EXAMINING DRIVERS OF COLLABORATIVE INBOUND OPEN INNOVATION: EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FROM AUSTRALIAN FIRMS

2012 ◽  
Vol 16 (04) ◽  
pp. 1250017 ◽  
Author(s):  
TANIA BUCIC ◽  
LIEM VIET NGO
Keyword(s):  
Open Innovation ◽  
Operating Environment ◽  
Senior Managers ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Innovation Activities ◽  
Collaborative Innovation ◽  
Search Processes ◽  
Collaborative Ventures ◽  
Strategic Imperative ◽  
Depth Interviews

Knowledge-based competition is leading to collaboration with partners and even competitors as firms pursue appropriate knowledge for innovation which has become a strategic imperative. Inbound open innovation helps increase the innovativeness of the firm by monitoring the operating environment and enabling it to source knowledge from collaborative partners. On the basis of in-depth interviews with senior managers and the knowledge-based view of the firm, this study examines the extent to which inbound open innovation activities contribute to collaborative innovation. Then, using a sample of 224 surveys representative of a cross-section of medium to large firms involved in collaborative ventures, the theoretical model is empirically examined. The results show that collaborative creativity, learning and knowledge stock are critical core inputs of collaborative innovation, with the support of formal coordination mechanisms and internal search processes, such as structural centralisation, formality and absorptive capacity.

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