The Role of Open Innovation-Oriented Strategies in the Innovation Performance of Mechanical Engineering Start-Up Firms in Northern Italy

2016 ◽  
pp. 158-175
Keyword(s):  
Open Innovation ◽  
Mechanical Engineering ◽  
Northern Italy ◽  
Innovation Performance ◽  
Start Up

scholarly journals The Interaction of Organizational Capabilities and Individual Competences for Open Innovation in Small and Medium Organizations

2019 ◽  
Vol 85 ◽  
pp. 148-175
Author(s):  
Ilma Pranciulytė-Bagdžiūnienė ◽  
Monika Petraitė
Keyword(s):  
Open Innovation ◽  
Strategic Thinking ◽  
Innovation Performance ◽  
Organizational Capabilities ◽  
Organizational Skills ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Business Environments ◽  
The Individual

Open innovation serves as a principal paradigm for success in diverse and dynamic business environments, as it gives the promise of a better-marked acceptance, a higher level of novelty, and managed innovation risks. However, SMEs face a critical challenge in developing open innovation capabilities and establishing new organizational processes that would empower employees to perform in open innovation regimes. We analyze the mediating role of organizational capabilities for employing and facilitating individual competences for innovation performance improvement as based on a survey of 266 SMEs. This study aimed to identify links between organizational capabilities and individual comp etences in AI for innovation performance in SMEs. The results of our study showed that organizational capabilities in AI at the level of organizations play a role as a mediator between competences for AI at the individual level and the progress of innovations. Considering that organizational skills in AI (organizational culture openness, organizational learning and trust, knowledge management systems, etc.) are strong organizational tools that help to increase the efficiency of AI and individual competences (to enhance employee creativity, enhance interaction with partners) as well as management competences (flexibility, ability to work with various professional communities, strategic thinking, etc.). This study partially refutes the assumptions that SMEs can only achieve innovative progress through individual competences in AI. Organizational capabilities in AI are also very important for AI implementation.

scholarly journals CULTURAL CONTINGENCIES OF OPEN INNOVATION STRATEGIES

2016 ◽  
Vol 20 (07) ◽  
pp. 1650067 ◽  
Author(s):  
ACHIM HECKER
Keyword(s):  
Open Innovation ◽  
Institutional Environment ◽  
Innovation Performance ◽  
Management Journal ◽  
Cultural Contingencies ◽  
Specific Factors ◽  
Innovation Strategies ◽  
Curvilinear Relationships ◽  
The Impact

This study draws on a sample of 49,919 firms from 13 countries to investigate the impact of national culture on the performance of inbound open innovation strategies. The study first validates the curvilinear relationships of external search breadth and depth with innovation performance, as first established by Laursen and Salter (2006) [Laursen, K and A Salter (2006). Open for innovation: The role of openness in explaining innovation performance among U.K. manufacturing firms. Strategic Management Journal, 27(2), 131–150] controlling for a number of country-specific factors including culture and the institutional environment. The study then draws on Hofstede’s cultural framework to theoretically and empirically investigate the influence of a country’s culture on the effectiveness of firms’ search strategies. The results show that cultural factors not only directly impact innovation performance, but also interact with search breadth and depth, thereby moderating the success of inbound open innovation strategies.

scholarly journals The Effect of Open Innovation on Eco-Innovation Performance: The Role of Market Knowledge Sources

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (7) ◽  
pp. 3890
Author(s):  
Fernando Sanchez-Henriquez ◽  
Ignacio Pavez
Keyword(s):  
Open Innovation ◽  
Innovation Performance ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Knowledge Sources ◽  
Market Knowledge ◽  
Broad Perspective ◽  
Multiple Strategies ◽  
Innovation Activities ◽  
Sources Of Knowledge

Organizations use multiple strategies to increase the number and impact of eco-innovations as a path to achieve competitive advantage. In this article, we study the role of open innovation activities, specifically related to market sources, as a driver of eco-innovation performance. While studies have looked at the relationship between these two emergent innovation phenomena from a broad perspective, we explore whether specific market knowledge sources—clients, suppliers, competitors, and consultants—and their combined use—affect eco-innovation performance. We rely on insights from theories of open innovation and sustainable and environmental innovation to build a theoretical framework about the determinants of eco-innovation performance from a market-driven open innovation perspective. Our sample consists of 3047 firm-year observations obtained from three consecutive panels of the Chilean Innovation Survey (2009–2014). We found that clients, suppliers, competitors, and consultants as knowledge sources positively influence eco-innovation performance in firms. In addition, our results suggest that a combination of client sourcing with supplier and consultant sources of knowledge positively affect eco-innovation performance. We discuss the implications of our findings for open innovation activities on eco-innovation and suggest ideas for future research.

Open innovation, dynamic organizational capacities and innovation performance in SMEs: Empirical evidence in the Tunisian manufacturing industry

2022 ◽  
pp. 146575032110660
Author(s):  
Hajer Chabbouh ◽  
Younès Boujelbene
Keyword(s):  
Open Innovation ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
Dynamic Capabilities ◽  
Innovation Performance ◽  
Organizational Capabilities ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Medium Enterprise

In this paper, the main objective is to examine inbound open innovation adoption by exploring its antecedents in terms of dynamic organizational capabilities, its implications on innovation performance, but also its mediating role between these capabilities and Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) innovation performance. Therefore, a conceptual model was proposed and empirically tested on the basis of data extracted from a survey involving a sample of 228 Tunisian manufacturing SMEs and analyzed through the Structural Equation Modeling method. In doing so, this paper adds to the existing literature on open innovation in SMEs and fills a neglected theoretical gap by proposing a link between dynamic capabilities theory and the open innovation paradigm, two literatures that have little overlap, to improve current understanding of innovation performance in SMEs. Ultimately, by empirically confirming the significant relationship between dynamic organizational capacities and innovation performance through the mediating role of open innovation, our results are mainly relevant for entrepreneurs and innovation managers in SMEs who can find valuable guidance on how to strengthen innovation performance under the nexus between the dynamic capabilities perspective and open innovation by focusing on the development of three capabilities that are dynamic capabilities, absorptive capability, and appropriation capabilities.

scholarly journals The role of open innovation and absorptive capacity in innovation performance: Empirical evidence from Slovenia

2017 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kaja Rangus ◽  
Mateja Drnovšek ◽  
Alberto Di Minin ◽  
André Spithoven
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Absorptive Capacity ◽  
Open Innovation ◽  
Innovation Performance

scholarly journals Determinants of Firm’s open innovation performance and the role of R & D department: an empirical evidence from Malaysian SME’s

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Waseem Ul Hameed ◽  
Muhammad Farhan Basheer ◽  
Jawad Iqbal ◽  
Ayesha Anwar ◽  
Hafiz Khalil Ahmad
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Open Innovation ◽  
Innovation Performance

scholarly journals The Mediating Role of Intellectual Capital in Open Innovation in the Service Industries

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (12) ◽  
pp. 5220 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chihcheng Lo ◽  
Chunhsien Wang ◽  
Yi-Chun Chen
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Capital ◽  
Open Innovation ◽  
Search Strategies ◽  
Service Industries ◽  
Innovation Performance ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Service Companies ◽  
The Impact

The paper intends to examine the mediating role of intellectual capital in the relation between the openness of service companies’ search strategies and thr innovation performance. It models the relationship between external search strategies of open innovation and proposes how intellectual capital matters for openness strategies in the service industries. Moreover, the paper intends to expand the field of open innovation through exploring the mediating effect of intellectual capital. This paper fulfills an identified need to study how intellectual capital can be enabled in the open innovation of the service industries. Both Hierarchical Multiple Regression and the Structural Equation Model were employed to test the innovation model by the panel data of the second Taiwan Innovation Survey including 948 service firms. Empirical insights enable us to have a better understanding in terms of how service companies learn from external knowledge sources. This paper suggests that the impact of openness strategies on innovation performance becomes indirect through the partial mediator of intellectual capital so that innovation performance in service industry benefits from simultaneously incorporating intellectual capital with the efficient openness strategies. Finally, the paper includes implications for more insights into how service companies improve their innovative activities with external searching strategies and practices in terms of intellectual capital.

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