Open innovation is now a widely used concept in academia, industry, and policy-making.
According to the recent report “The Open Innovation Barometer”, released by the Economist …

Start-up collaboration units (SCUs) are organizational units specifically created by large
companies to facilitate collaboration with start-ups within their corporate innovation …

While the potential of open innovation to develop product-related improvements through the
use of external knowledge sources is undeniable, our understanding of how firms become …

Purpose Little is known, about the role played by start-ups in open innovation networks. Start-
ups–due to their nature of new and emerging companies–can largely benefit from the …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate how focal firms in supply networks
manage weak and strong ties for exploration and exploitation innovation in mature …

Purpose The rising need to innovate and obtain knowledge from more distant knowledge
sources calls for new innovation strategies and a better integration of other external actors …

The demands of transportation have driven the automobile industry into an innovation race.
Uncertain technological trends, long development cycles, highly capital-intensive product …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the way companies involved in Open
Innovation Processes (OIPs) routinize the procedure through which they can absorb in …

Technology transfer (TT) from universities to manufacturing firms is important for enhancing
innovation performance (IP) and ultimately improving competitiveness. However, TT is …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the influence that adopting open innovation
(OI) has on the innovativeness and performance of specialized small and medium-sized …