Open innovation and the adoption of environmental process innovations: information source and proximity to partner types

PurposeThe relationship between corporate culture and inbound open innovation (OI) has been limited to two sub-constructs: a culture for openness and an innovation culture, but until now a richer conceptualization of corporate culture is missing.Design/methodology/approachThe authors apply Quinn and Rohrbaugh's (1983) competing values framework and regress these together with company internal and external control variables on five measures of inbound OI, reflecting product innovation, process innovation and the sourcing of innovation activities. The authors use data from a survey of more than 250 Swiss companies, primarily SMEs.FindingsThe importance of the firms' market environments suggests that the results are affected by the specific situation in which the firms found themselves at the time of the survey: after a strong currency shock, inbound OI activities seem to be a reaction to external pressure that favored planning and rule-oriented (formal) cultures to implement cost-cutting process innovations.Practical implicationsCompanies should develop a vision and a strategy, ensure open and transparent communication, have suitable reward and support mechanisms in place, adjust structures and processes, and institutionalize and formalize any change whenever they are confronted with a situation that requires a quick reaction and an adjustment to their degree of openness.Originality/valueThe paper clarifies the relationship between cultural traits and inbound OI, using a well-established understanding of corporate culture and differentiating between innovation types. It points to the importance of the external environment in order to understand the role of culture.

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Open innovation actions and innovation performance

European Journal of Innovation Management ◽

10.1108/ejim-07-2013-0074 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 18 (2) ◽

pp. 150-171 ◽

Cited By ~ 64

Author(s):

Marco Greco ◽

Michele Grimaldi ◽

Livio Cricelli

Keyword(s):

Open Innovation ◽

State Of The Art ◽

The State ◽

Innovation Performance ◽

European Countries ◽

Future Directions ◽

Content Type ◽

Process Innovations ◽

Product And Process Innovation ◽

Product And Process

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify the recurrences in the empirical evidences that link open innovation (OI) actions and innovation performance in European countries. It provides managers with useful strategic suggestions, emphasizes the limitations of the state of the art, and recommends future directions of research. Design/methodology/approach – The authors systematically reviewed empirical articles linking OI actions and innovation performance in European countries, published on peer reviewed journals from January 2003 until May 2013. The authors organized the evidences according to a novel taxonomy grounded in the literature. Findings – The paper shows an increasing interest in the research of empirical evidence regarding OI and innovation performance. Nonetheless, evidence of the role played by outbound OI activities are extremely rare. The authors found that process innovations are more likely to benefit from coupled OI activities rather than inbound activities. Moreover, the effect of coupled depth actions on both product and process innovation performance was always positive in the reviewed articles. The authors also discuss how scholars measure innovation performance, pointing out the criticalities. Research limitations/implications – The paper allows analysing the empirical evidences found in the literature, emphasizing the limitations of the state of the art and recommending future directions of research. Practical implications – The systematization of the empirical evidences found in the European literature provides managers with useful strategic suggestions to improve their organizations’ innovation performances. Originality/value – The paper contains a complete and extensive analysis of empirical OI literature with respect to European countries. The articles and their findings are organized according to a novel taxonomy useful to identify evidences and recurrences in a synoptic manner.

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Factors related to innovative output in the Dutch agrifood industry

Journal on Chain and Network Science ◽

10.3920/jcns2006.x063 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 6 (1) ◽

pp. 31-44 ◽

Cited By ~ 30

Author(s):

Maarten Batterink ◽

Emiel Wubben ◽

S. (Onno) Omta

Keyword(s):

Information Source ◽

Binary Logistic Regression ◽

Sources Of Information ◽

Community Innovation Survey ◽

Firm Level ◽

Explanatory Variables ◽

Process Innovations ◽

Product And Process ◽

Total Turnover ◽

Innovative Output

The present study assessed the factors related to innovative output in the Dutch agrifood industry, a scale-intensive, supplierdominated industry. We concentrated on explanatory variables related to cooperation, information sources, innovation objectives, obstacles to innovation, and innovation resources. Firm-level data were used from the Dutch section of the 2001 Community Innovation Survey (CIS, N=328). We conducted linear and binary logistic regression to analyse the data. The results show that in order to be successful in product innovation, firms must have a strong market orientation. Furthermore, we found that in order to become (more) innovative, firms must have organisational conditions in place, as organisational obstacles are associated with lower levels of innovative output. Innovation subsidies turn out to have a positive effect on both product and process innovations. With respect to the value of a focal firm's network, the surprising conclusion can be drawn that the network is not perceived as crucial for innovation: cooperation is not a factor that explains innovative output; and network actors are - only to a limited extent - perceived as important sources of information for innovation. Competitors as an important source of information explain the share of the total turnover from new or improved products, whereas suppliers are an important information source for process innovators. In summary, innovative agrifood firms do not rely strongly on external sources, contrary to expectations for supplier-dominated firms. Instead, Dutch innovative agrifood firms more strongly reflect the characteristics of scale-intensive firms.

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Open innovation in the food and beverage industry

Management Decision ◽

10.1108/md-04-2016-0213 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 55 (3) ◽

pp. 526-546 ◽

Cited By ~ 16

Author(s):

Cristina Bayona-Saez ◽

Claudio Cruz-Cázares ◽

Teresa García-Marco ◽

Mercedes Sánchez García

Keyword(s):

Open Innovation ◽

Optimal Number ◽

Incremental Innovation ◽

Content Type ◽

Innovative Performance ◽

Process Innovations ◽

Beverage Industry ◽

Food And Beverage ◽

External Sources ◽

External Sources Of Knowledge

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to extend the knowledge into the relationship between open innovation (OI) and firm’s innovative performance. Specifically, the authors aim to determine whether the benefits of OI practices are different for Food and Beverage (FnB) firms as compared to those of other sectors. The FnB industry is relevant in terms of employment GDP generation in the UE, characterised by high integration and low-tech intensity. Design/methodology/approach In order to achieve the goal and obtain robust results, the authors consider four OI dimensions and four innovation performance measures using panel data (2004-2011) from 10,771 FnB and non-FnB firms using Tobit and Logit models by random effects. Findings The authors test and confirm the presence of the classical inverted U-shape relationship between OI and firm innovative performance for FnB and non-FnB companies. However, the optimal number of external sources of knowledge used is lesser for FnB than the rest of the companies. Originality/value The paper compares the OI effects in a traditional and low-tech industry vs other industries considering four innovation outputs (product innovations, process innovations, incremental innovation and radical innovation).

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An Empirical Study on the Relation Between Types of Innovations: Pardis Technology Park as a Case Study

International Journal of Informatics and Communication Technology (IJ-ICT) ◽

10.11591/ijict.v3i1.pp39-46 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 3 (1) ◽

pp. 39

Author(s):

Amir Mirzadeh Phirouzabadi ◽

M Mahmoudian ◽

Mohammad Asghari

Keyword(s):

Open Innovation ◽

Incremental Innovation ◽

Global Competition ◽

Innovation Network ◽

Market Society ◽

Process Innovations ◽

Technology Park ◽

Different Types ◽

Organizational Innovations

Nowadays, Innovation is known as an essential component of competitiveness, classified in different types in literature. For instance, on one hand it is classified based on OECD as product, process, marketing and organizational innovations and on the other hand as incremental, competence developing, market developing and radical ones based on the degree of internal and external newness. Also, innovation models have changed from “simple linear” to “networking interactions” and concepts such as ‘open innovation’ and ‘innovation network’ have become important to both academic and market society due to intensive global competition. Therefore, this paper tried to empirically study and analyze the types of innovation based on OECD regarding to other classification based on the degree of internal and external newness in a networking interaction. Thus, in order to empirically explore the relations between these two classifications, we used the data of last three years (2008-2011) of 50 companies from the network Pardis Technology Park (PTP) in Iran as a case study. The results showed that most of the innovations as product, marketing and organizational were new to the market. Also marketing and process innovations were more related to radical and incremental innovation respectively and less organizational innovations were incremental.

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OPENNESS IN PRODUCT AND PROCESS INNOVATION

International Journal of Innovation Management ◽

10.1142/s1363919612003812 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 16 (04) ◽

pp. 1250020 ◽

Cited By ~ 26

Author(s):

FANG HUANG ◽

JOHN RICE

Keyword(s):

Open Innovation ◽

Large Scale ◽

New Products ◽

Process Innovation ◽

Innovation Performance ◽

External Information ◽

Marginal Effect ◽

Process Innovations ◽

Product And Process Innovation ◽

The Impact

Open innovation has generally been explored in terms of improved innovation performance vis-à-vis product/service innovation performance. However, process innovation is often ignored in the open innovation literature. In this study, we assess the impact of openness on innovation in products/services, and also on process innovation, drawing on a large-scale sample of Australian firms. In essence, we find that open innovation models are useful for firms seeking to innovate in processes as well as products and services. However, we find that openness to external information sources may, after a time, lead to decreasing marginal returns as measured by innovation performance. We also observe that, within our sample, the proposed complementarities between internal and external knowledge are generally only evident as precursors to the introduction of new products and services, and may not be as beneficial in stimulating process innovations. It is also shown by our study that investment in absorptive capacity has a declining marginal effect on the innovation performance of new processes, but not on the introduction of new products and services.

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SEARCHING WIDELY OR DEEPLY? THE IMPACT OF OPEN INNOVATION ON INNOVATION AND INNOVATION PERFORMANCE AMONG INDONESIAN MANUFACTURING FIRMS

Journal of Indonesian Economy and Business ◽

10.22146/jieb.29218 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 33 (2) ◽

pp. 123

Author(s):

Arif Hartono ◽

Ratih Kusumawardhani

Keyword(s):

Technological Innovation ◽

Open Innovation ◽

Innovation Process ◽

Manufacturing Firms ◽

Innovation Performance ◽

External Knowledge ◽

Process Innovations ◽

Innovation Surveys ◽

External Sources ◽

The Impact

Since the term Open Innovation (OI) was coined by Henry Chesbrough in 2003, OI studies have been frequently conducted. Surprisingly, OI insights, in the context of Indonesian firms, are scarce. Furthermore, there are no existing OI studies that use data derived from innovation surveys. Hence, this study attempts to close the gap in the literature, by providing insights into Indonesian firms’ openness toward external knowledge, and its impact on innovation performance. The main aim of this study is to investigate the impact of OI practices on Indonesian manufacturing firms’ propensity to innovate (i.e. their product, process, organization, and marketing) and innovation performance. Product and process innovations are grouped under the term technological innovation, while organization and marketing innovations are classified as non-technological innovation. Data used in this study were derived from the Indonesia Innovation Survey (IIS) 2011 that covered the period from 2009-2010. Following Laursen and Salter’s (2006) study, OI indicators consist of external search breadth (i.e. the number of external sources or search channels that firms rely upon in their innovative activities) and depth (the extent to which firms draw deeply from the different external sources or search channels) in innovation process. Undertaking logistic and tobit regressions, this study shows that in general, both breadth and depth significantly and positively affect technological and non-technological innovation, as well as innovation performance. However, the over-search on external knowledge, measured by breadth squared and depth squared, negatively and significantly influence innovation and innovation performance. This indicates that too much external knowledge, sourced during the innovation process will diminish the return of innovation. This study also finds an indication of a complementary relationship existing between internal R&D and external knowledge; meaning that the implementation of one knowledge-sourcing strategy (either sourcing from internal R&D or external knowledge) increases the marginal returns from another. Lastly, important implications related to theoretical and innovation strategies are proposed.

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