The Role of Technological and Institutional Affordances in Open Innovation

2021 ◽  
pp. 115-127
Author(s):  
Beyza Oba
Keyword(s):  
Open Innovation ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Specific Context ◽  
Innovation Practices ◽  
Technological Affordances

This study aims to advance studies on open innovation, digital technologies, and institutional infrastructures by building on extant research in the field. Most research to date focused on digital technologies and digital affordances, while institutional infrastructures and affordances are less explored. To provide a background for such an approach, this study identifies and integrates two major issues—technological affordances and institutional affordances—that enable or constrain open innovation practices within firms. The framework developed indicates that the degree of openness of the innovation practices is related to the availability of digital technologies and institutional infrastructures in a specific context and the practices of incumbent firms in mobilizing these structures.

Exploring the Role of Open Innovation Intermediaries

2020 ◽  
pp. 1386-1402
Author(s):  
Pierre-Jean Barlatier ◽  
Eleni Giannopoulou ◽  
Julien Pénin
Keyword(s):  
Technology Transfer ◽  
Transaction Costs ◽  
Open Innovation ◽  
Innovation Process ◽  
Public Research ◽  
Innovation Intermediaries ◽  
Diffusion Of Knowledge ◽  
Innovation Practices ◽  
And Diffusion

In the era of open innovation, companies that want to innovate can no more remain isolated, they have to interact and collaborate with diverse actors of the innovation process. The rise of open innovation practices resulted in an increase of intermediaries for innovation. This chapter aims to better understand why innovative companies use the services of such intermediaries. Two distinct types of open innovation intermediaries have been identified, whose roles are significantly different; while the first type help companies to reduce transaction costs related to open innovation, the second type may be implicated directly in the creation, transfer and diffusion of knowledge. This chapter illustrates both roles in the case of public research valorization and distinguish clearly “Technology Transfer Organizations” (TTOs), whose role is to reduce transaction costs related to technology transfer from “Research and Technology Organizations” (RTOs) that are actively involved in knowledge creation and transfer processes.

Open Innovation

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Kuan
Keyword(s):  
Open Innovation ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Innovation Management ◽  
Large Firms ◽  
Technology And Innovation ◽  
Innovation Practices ◽  
Annual World ◽  
Numerous Journal

Open Innovation, published in 2003, was a ground-breaking work by Henry Chesbrough that placed technology and innovation at the center of attention for managers of large firms. The term open innovation refers to the ways in which firms can generate and commercialize innovation by engaging outside entities. The ideas have attracted the notice of scholars, spawning annual world conferences and a large literature in technology and innovation management (including numerous journal special issues) that documents diverse examples of innovations and the often novel business models needed to make the most of those innovations. The role of business models in open innovation is the focus of Open Business Models, Chesbrough’s 2006 follow-up to Open Innovation. Managers have likewise flocked to Chesbrough’s approach, as the hundreds of thousands of hits from an online search using the term open innovation can attest. Surveys show that the majority of large firms were engaging in open innovation practices in 2017, compared to only 20% in 2003 when Open Innovation was published.

Exploring the Role of Open Innovation Intermediaries

Crowdsourcing ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 632-648
Author(s):  
Pierre-Jean Barlatier ◽  
Eleni Giannopoulou ◽  
Julien Pénin
Keyword(s):  
Technology Transfer ◽  
Transaction Costs ◽  
Open Innovation ◽  
Innovation Process ◽  
Public Research ◽  
Innovation Intermediaries ◽  
Diffusion Of Knowledge ◽  
Innovation Practices ◽  
And Diffusion

In the era of open innovation, companies that want to innovate can no more remain isolated, they have to interact and collaborate with diverse actors of the innovation process. The rise of open innovation practices resulted in an increase of intermediaries for innovation. This chapter aims to better understand why innovative companies use the services of such intermediaries. Two distinct types of open innovation intermediaries have been identified, whose roles are significantly different; while the first type help companies to reduce transaction costs related to open innovation, the second type may be implicated directly in the creation, transfer and diffusion of knowledge. This chapter illustrates both roles in the case of public research valorization and distinguish clearly “Technology Transfer Organizations” (TTOs), whose role is to reduce transaction costs related to technology transfer from “Research and Technology Organizations” (RTOs) that are actively involved in knowledge creation and transfer processes.

Open innovation: a growth powerhouse when integrated with dynamic digital technologies

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony Lipp ◽  
Anthony Marshall ◽  
Jacob Dencik
Keyword(s):  
Open Innovation ◽  
Business Performance ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Growth Strategy ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Recent Emergence ◽  
New Research ◽  
Practical Implications ◽  
Future Growth

Purpose The more recent emergence of advanced digital technologies and the acceleration of process digitization, combined with rising stakeholder expectations, have created an urgent imperative for organizations to embrace open innovation. Design/methodology/approach The analysis in this paper is based on a survey 2,379 executives representing 24 industries and 26 countries conducted by the IBM Institute for Business Value. IBV researchers used descriptive statistics to understand innovation trends. To understand the role of open innovation for business performance IBV researchers segmented the sample based on two criteria: extent to which the organization sees open innovation as important for their growth strategy and the extent to which they are effective in advancing open innovation. Findings Ecosystems are key to success with open innovation, creating value opportunities within and across the value chains. 10; Practical/implications Open and interoperable technologies like hybrid cloud, APIs, blockchain and AI allow for many more ways to create value by unlocking hidden potential in existing relationships. Originality/value Open innovation drives growth; new research found that 84 percent of executives think open innovation is important for their future growth strategy.

scholarly journals OPEN INNOVATION: SYSTEMATISATION OF KNOWLEDGE EXPLORATION AND EXPLOITATION FOR COMMERCIALISATION

2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (03) ◽  
pp. 1750027 ◽  
Author(s):  
CHRISTIAN TABI AMPONSAH ◽  
SAMUEL ADAMS
Keyword(s):  
Open Innovation ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
North African ◽  
Exploration And Exploitation ◽  
Commercial Activities ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
Innovation Practices ◽  
Knowledge Exploration ◽  
Innovation Processes

This paper explores the intricacies of various determinants that can be used to systematise open innovation processes as the functional streaming of knowledge, both inbound and outbound, to expedite internal innovation and extricate the market for external use of innovation. Drawing on extant open innovation literature and data collected from organisations on the list of Thomas Reuters Derwent World Patents Index covering North America, Europe, Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East and North African for their open innovation practices, a model was developed that conceptualises the systematisation of open innovation processes toward commercial activities. The results show that the systematisation of open innovation requires a balancing act of knowledge exploration (KET) and exploitation (KEL) ambidexterity for commercialisation of the firm, and that a relationship exists between these variables. Using the contingency-based approach to organisational development, the paper adds to the understanding of the role of open innovation processes, systematisation, content and context as well as the research and development aspect of open innovation.

The role of digital technologies in open innovation processes: an exploratory multiple case study analysis

2018 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 136-160 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Urbinati ◽  
Davide Chiaroni ◽  
Vittorio Chiesa ◽  
Federico Frattini
Keyword(s):  
Open Innovation ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Multiple Case Study ◽  
Study Analysis ◽  
Case Study Analysis ◽  
Multiple Case ◽  
Innovation Processes

scholarly journals Framing innovation practices in interstitial issue fields: Open innovation in the NYC administration

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maximilian Heimstädt ◽  
Georg Reischauer
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Open Innovation ◽  
Organizational Factors ◽  
Organizational Level ◽  
Public Sector Organizations ◽  
Cultural Resonance ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Innovation Practices

Public sector organizations increasingly innovate through open innovation practices that originated in the private sector. To explain the use of these innovation practices, extant research has focused on enabling conditions at the individual and organizational level, but has paid little attention to extra-organizational factors such as culture. To address this gap, we adopted a field framing perspective to study the use of open innovation practices in the New York City (NYC) administration. We found that actors in NYC equipped different social positions – insider, outsider, and interstitial – and used different discursive tactics – reflective frame blending and supplemental frame blending – to enhance the cultural resonance of open innovation practices. We further theorize these findings with a framework on the enabling conditions for the cultural resonance of innovation practices. Our study contributes to innovation studies by unpacking the role of culture for the use of innovation practices and to the framing literature by specifying the role of discursive tactics and social positions for the cultural resonance of new practices.

Exploring the Role of Open Innovation Intermediaries

2017 ◽  
pp. 87-103
Author(s):  
Pierre-Jean Barlatier ◽  
Eleni Giannopoulou ◽  
Julien Pénin
Keyword(s):  
Technology Transfer ◽  
Transaction Costs ◽  
Open Innovation ◽  
Innovation Process ◽  
Public Research ◽  
Innovation Intermediaries ◽  
Diffusion Of Knowledge ◽  
Innovation Practices ◽  
And Diffusion

In the era of open innovation, companies that want to innovate can no more remain isolated, they have to interact and collaborate with diverse actors of the innovation process. The rise of open innovation practices resulted in an increase of intermediaries for innovation. This chapter aims to better understand why innovative companies use the services of such intermediaries. Two distinct types of open innovation intermediaries have been identified, whose roles are significantly different; while the first type help companies to reduce transaction costs related to open innovation, the second type may be implicated directly in the creation, transfer and diffusion of knowledge. This chapter illustrates both roles in the case of public research valorization and distinguish clearly “Technology Transfer Organizations” (TTOs), whose role is to reduce transaction costs related to technology transfer from “Research and Technology Organizations” (RTOs) that are actively involved in knowledge creation and transfer processes.

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