Intellectual Property issues (IP) is a concern that refrains companies to cooperate in
whatever of Open Innovation (OI) processes. Particularly, SME consider open innovation as
uncertain, risky processes. Despite the opportunities that online OI platforms offer, SMEs
have so far failed to embrace them, and proved reluctant to OI. We intend to find whether
special collaborative spaces that facilitate a sort of preventive idea claiming, explicit claiming
evolution of defensive publication, as so far patents and publications for prevailing …