Delivering on societal impacts through open innovation: a framework for government laboratories

Schillo, R. Sandra; Kinder, Jeffrey S.

doi:10.1007/s10961-016-9521-4

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“…OI questions earlier models of innovation, which emphasized keeping information internal and maintaining full control over the innovation process. This emphasis on openness has contributed to the development of novel methods of collaboration and partnerships in innovation and technology commercialization involving established and new firms, as well as a wide range of organizations, including universities, federal labs, and different types of innovation intermediaries (Chesbrough & Bogers, 2014;Nambisan & Sawhney, 2007;Perkmann & West, 2015;Schillo & Kinder, 2017;Von Hippel, 2005). In turn, these changes imply new approaches to the discovery, creation, and pursuit of entrepreneurial opportunities, both by new ventures and incumbent firms.…”

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On open innovation, platforms, and entrepreneurship

Nambisan

Siegel

Kenney

2018

Strategic Entrepreneurship

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Research Summary In recent decades, two emergent phenomena have jointly transformed the nature and pursuit of entrepreneurship across industries and sectors: open innovation and platformization. Open innovation involves a shift toward more open and distributed models of innovation, while platformization refers to the increasing importance of digital platforms as a venue for value creation and capture. Together, open innovation and platforms have created numerous opportunities for entrepreneurs and their firms—from serving as inputs for innovation for established firms to participating as complementors on existing platforms. While these entrepreneurial opportunities (and conditions) have manifested themselves in rich and varied ways, our understanding of these new forms of entrepreneurship has lagged behind. In this essay, and in this special issue, our objective is to bring a sharper focus on the important research issues and questions that frame open innovation, platforms, and entrepreneurship. Managerial Summary Digital platforms and open innovation environments have unleashed numerous promising opportunities for entrepreneurs, in industries ranging from consumer software, entertainment, and home appliances to auto, health, and energy. To pursue those opportunities, however, entrepreneurs will need to gain a deeper understanding of the factors that facilitate and constrain them. In this essay, we identify and discuss several of these factors and the associated challenges and highlight the need for additional research. We also consider some of the broader contextual factors, including regulatory policies, digitization, and globalization that shape the emerging opportunities.

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On open innovation, platforms, and entrepreneurship

Nambisan

Siegel

Kenney

2018

Strategic Entrepreneurship

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“…The literature of OI in RTOs, and specifically, the studies that research the impact of OI in the performance of RTOs (or other types of research organisations) is very scarce. Many authors approaching it focus on the impact of collaboration rather than a more holistic view of OI [11,26,27]. Some other authors have analysed (focused on company-owned research centres) the effect of inbound OI on the performance of collaborating company-owned business units and research centres; finding a positive relationship of inbound OI and performance for both business unit and research centre [58].…”

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“…Second, we contribute to the literature of intermediaries in the innovation systems, focusing on them, and studying the effect that OI has on their own performance, instead of the partner role, which has been the dominant perspective [11,26,27].…”

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Implementing Open Innovation in Research and Technology Organisations: Approaches and Impact

Uribe-Echeberria

Igartua

Lizarralde

2019

Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity

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Research and development organisations (RTOs) are at the heart of innovation systems. They help to connect innovation system actors to foster industrial innovation. Due to this intermediary role, they act as paradigmatic open innovation (OI) actors. In this context, RTOs need to balance their knowledge stocks and flows, while assuring their own innovation capabilities and positively impacting the innovation system they influence. Thus, RTOs need to develop collaboration approaches that support their own performance while increasing their capabilities and not threatening their competitive advantages derived from their knowledge stock. In this study we extend the OI research to research organisations analysing their OI approach and the impact on its own performance, developing a new framework for OI study in RTOs using a partial least squares structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM) approach. The research, based on a sample of Spanish RTOs, arises two substantive conclusions. First, an increased number of collaboration partners (collaboration breadth) and the use of a variety of OI practices have a strong impact on RTOs’ overall performance (scientific, transference, and economic results). Second, RTOs need to foster their aperture and promote an active management to benefit from collaborating partners, whereas managers should pay special attention to questions related to the protection and management of intellectual property when promoting the use of different OI practices. Both results also emphasise the importance of managing firms’ knowledge flows in the implementation of OI in RTOs.

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“…The linkage (organizational identity) among commercial ecological and social interests arise as a key motivation in relation to unique products that public ERIs may contribute toward. This requires dispelling the sense that ERI are competitors in knowledge production and value creation and instead promote their inherent and mandated identity as collaborators (Schillo and Kinder, 2017). Linking commercial, ecological, and social interests in new innovative ventures should therefore be a cornerstone of any ERI business plan (Porter and Kramer, 2011;Liu and Brody, 2016).…”

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Integrating Environmental Science and the Economy: Innovative Partnerships between the Private Sector and Research Infrastructures

Chabbi

Loescher

Dillon

2017

Front. Environ. Sci.

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The present paper is a preliminary analysis of the funding, organizational culture, environmental, and innovation challenges that are currently faced by Environmental Research Infrastructures (ERI) and private enterprises working together. We contend there is a strong case for building creative collaboration models across these sectors that also require to new management tools to effectively generate economically-driven solutions to the global society at large in the face of climate change. To that end, public/private stakeholders that are likely to partner to address climate change also face new frontiers in how they will structurally and organizationally work together. We explore these issues around changing political, scientific, commercial environments; partnerships models; barriers in bridging these communities; and the role of formal project management processes. There is no one solution to fit all conditions that can bring together a specific public/private enterprise that incorporates a research infrastructure. However, we have provided two examples of collaborative models of public/private enterprises to highlight how these issues can be addressed, and to foster future dynamic and creative solutions to this problem.

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Delivering on societal impacts through open innovation: a framework for government laboratories

Cited by 15 publications

References 53 publications

On open innovation, platforms, and entrepreneurship

On open innovation, platforms, and entrepreneurship

Implementing Open Innovation in Research and Technology Organisations: Approaches and Impact

Integrating Environmental Science and the Economy: Innovative Partnerships between the Private Sector and Research Infrastructures

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