Developing a Green Product-Based in an Open Innovation Environment. Case Study: Electrical Vehicle

Abstract

In order to respond to new market challenges, companies have attempted to develop open innovation processes with other organizations such as research centers and higher-education institutions. However, it is also frequently mentioned by several companies that the lack of models that support open innovation in a sustainable way, involving higher-education institutions or research centers and companies in the context of a collaborative environment, is an obstacle for a wider acceptance of this way of promoting innovation processes. Starting with some discussion about innovation models in a collaborative context, this paper discusses the developed of an electric vehicle based on an open-innovation approach among several companies and a Portuguese university.

A Framework for Risk Assessment in Collaborative Networks to Promote Sustainable Systems in Innovation Ecosystems

“…In order to model the resources and the different competences involved here, shared among OIN partners, it was adopted the open innovation model, developed from the work of [10], which allows to manage the innovation (and the partner contribution) on behalf of the system/product do be developed (Figure 7). The VE, shares different competences and resources between the partners involved, resulting therefore, into a set of innovations around the product development.…”

“…Each process/task is related to a specific component of the system, with the responsibility, being In order to model the resources and the different competences involved here, shared among OIN partners, it was adopted the open innovation model, developed from the work of [10], which allows to manage the innovation (and the partner contribution) on behalf of the system/product do be developed (Figure 7).…”

“…The same author [10] claims that the closed innovation model type is no longer sustainable, from the economic point of view and organizations should engage into an open innovation approaches to be more competitive, by being a new way to create value to a company or other organization [10]. In essence, these OI models, can be defined by having two different types of knowledge flow and resources [10]. The first one, regards to the outside-in knowledge flow, i.e., it occurs when a company brings knowledge from the exterior, as well as resources from its partners, customers, scientific centers, universities, among other stakeholders involved, in order to improve its performance in terms of innovation, which allows to reduce costs and even time through the acquisition or borrow of the resources that they need to achieve its goals.…”

“…Several definitions of this concept can be found on literature. An important definition, refers innovation, has a phenomenon that occurs when an invention is introduced in the market [8,9], although a formally definition, can be found by Chesbrough [10], broking therefore, with the classical linear approach, related with the closed innovation paradigm and by introducing new challenges within the innovation process.…”

“…The same author [10] claims that the closed innovation model type is no longer sustainable, from the economic point of view and organizations should engage into an open innovation approaches to be more competitive, by being a new way to create value to a company or other organization [10]. In essence, these OI models, can be defined by having two different types of knowledge flow and resources [10].…”