Connecting Absorptive Capacity and Open Innovation

Vanhaverbeke, Wim; Vrande, Vareska Van De; Cloodt, Myriam

doi:10.2139/ssrn.1091265

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“…Autio et al (2008) argue that firms involved in collaborative innovation should purposely foster the development of CoPs. There are clear links between open innovation and absorptive capacity, particularly with reference to the sourcing and exchange of externally developed knowledge (Vanhaverbeke et al, 2008). CoPs may provide an introductory vehicle for SME knowledge management (Du Plessis, 2008), a means to boost technological learning, and a means to commercially exploit new innovations (Autio et al, 2008).…”

Section: Communities Of Practicementioning

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Communities of practice, knowledge acquisition and innovation: a case study of science-based SMEs

Pattinson

Preece

2014

Journal of Knowledge Management

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Purpose -Recent research into communities of practice (CoPs) has focused on large organizations, suggesting they can be constructed for the purposes of knowledge acquisition and innovation. The study provides evidence that for small science-based firms CoPs are more likely to emerge unplanned to support incremental innovation in the form of problem solving activities.Design/methodology/approach -Thematic template analysis was used to analyze 25 indepth interviews conducted with a range of employees in science-based SMEs.Findings -Analysis of the interview data from a case study of six science-based SMEs provides evidence that both intra and inter-organizational CoPs were leveraged for a variety of purposes, including the acquisition of knowledge and improving firm's ability to generate innovative solutions. Research limitations/implications -Whilst there cannot be any claim of 'representativeness'of the sample in relation to the wider population of science-based firms, the authors do maintain that the new empirical material has made a contribution to a research area which has been dominated, especially in recent years, by a focus upon large organizations that have adopted a managerialist orientation.Practical implications -a contextualized framework for the construction of CoPs in sciencebased SMEs has been developed from the findings of this study.Originality/value -The challenges of understanding the role of CoPs in science-based SMEs and the factors that influence their success, or otherwise, have not been sufficiently investigated and have received little attention in the extant literature. Hence, this paper makes an original contribution to this body of knowledge.

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Section: Communities Of Practicementioning

confidence: 99%

Communities of practice, knowledge acquisition and innovation: a case study of science-based SMEs

Pattinson

Preece

2014

Journal of Knowledge Management

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“…the differentiation w.r.t. time of (10) and of (11) can only yield a system of control equations originated from (18). The corresponding policy implication suggests that the diffusion of the spillover does not affect the optimal policy of the i-th firm, so that the spillover effects are completely exogenous with respect to the producer's strategy.…”

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Open Innovation in a dynamic Cournot duopoly

Hasnas¹,

Lambertini

Палестини

2014

Economic Modelling

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“…Open innovation entails creating value networks. By co-creating value with customers, the innovating firm may open up the innovation process and insource ideas from the network and thus benefit from external knowledge while developing internally (Vanhaverbeke et al 2008). For example, a service open innovation network could be formed between a service provider and its customers, where value propositions are made and considered, and value created reciprocally.…”

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Opening up innovation: the impact of contextual factors on the co-creation of IT-enabled value adding services within the manufacturing industry

Westergren

2010

Inf Syst E-Bus Manage

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This paper examines the contextual factors that influenced an open innovation project failure. To this end the paper adds to the discussion on open innovation in non high-tech settings and highlights the importance of contextual factors as determinants of success or failure within the open innovation paradigm. It is based on a case study performed at PowerDrive, a manufacturer of hydraulic drive systems, and three of its customers, and follows their attempt to co-create new value-adding services through the innovative use of information technology in the form of a remote monitoring system. The study shows that open innovation project success cannot be measured only in terms of coherence with set targets of quality, time, and costs, but also has to include the creation of mutual value and the development of trust and strong inter-organizational relationships. Furthermore, the role and character of information technology has to be considered and accounted for and the social context made explicit. By managing the value creation process, the value proposal stands a better chance of indeed providing value.

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Connecting Absorptive Capacity and Open Innovation

Cited by 78 publications

References 95 publications

Communities of practice, knowledge acquisition and innovation: a case study of science-based SMEs

Communities of practice, knowledge acquisition and innovation: a case study of science-based SMEs

Open Innovation in a dynamic Cournot duopoly

Opening up innovation: the impact of contextual factors on the co-creation of IT-enabled value adding services within the manufacturing industry

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