Open Innovation in a Global Perspective

Abstract

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Contextual factors and open innovation: are there contradictory or yet little investigated propositions?

“…On the other side, Lichtenthaler (2008) himself finds that firms which operate in the semiconductors/electronics industry tend to rely less on technological acquisition than firms which belong to automotive/machinery, chemicals/pharmaceuticals, and 'other' industries. This last result -i.e., the different behaviours in terms of OI that firms have depending on the industry they belong -is consistent with Gassman and Enkel (2004) andDe Backer et al (2008). More in particular, Gassman and Enkel (2004) state that the relative importance of internal and external sources varies across different industries.…”

“…Indeed, as regards the former (technology exploitation), larger companies seem to have a greater technology portfolio than smaller companies and hence have a wider technological knowledge potentially suitable for commercialisation; as regards the latter (technology exploration), larger firms seem unable to completely rely on internal activities because of the diversity of the technological knowledge that they use. In general (i.e., considering OI in its wholeness composed of both the two types of technological transactions), the fact that larger firms seem to drive the opening of the innovation process can be justified by the more systematic approach they have in their innovation processes (Lichtenthaler, 2008) and the larger resources they possess with respect to small and medium enterprises (De Backer et al, 2008;Lichtenthaler, 2008;van de Vrande et al, 2008). In addition, according to Lichtenthaler (2008), it should be noted that the effect of firms' size seems to be stronger in the case of technology commercialisation than in technology exploration, in that commercialisation is rather a newer phenomena than acquisition: as the external mode of technology exploitation has become a broader trend only in recent years, it is still driven by large pioneering firms, while the acquisition of external technology, by contrast, is distributed more evenly across firms of different size.…”

“…4 direction in which the innovation process is open (exploitation, exploration or both)(De Backer, et al, 2008; Gassman and Enkel, 2004;Lichtenthaler, 2008;Lichtenthaler and Ernst, 2009a).…”

Antecedents and determinants of high-tech SMEs’ commercialisation enablers: opening the black box of open innovation practices

“…They initially used existing data sources like the European Community Innovation Survey (CIS) survey (Ebersberger, Herstad et al, 2011;Mention, 2011) or global indicators that were not designed to measure open innovation (De Backer, López-Bassols et al, 2008). They later included specific quantitative studies, but often focused on certain industries (Harison and Koski, 2010), countries (Lazzarotti, Manzini et al, 2010) or institutions (Spithoven, Clarysse et al, 2010).…”

The use of ICT tools to support collaborative product development activities: evidences from Brazilian industry

“…Among these partners, prior studies have highlighted that suppliers and customers are the most common ones (e.g. Tether, 2002;Backer et al, 2008;Peng et al, 2014;Mu et al, 2017).…”