The open innovation research landscape: established perspectives and emerging themes across different levels of analysis

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(2017) The open innovation research landscape: established perspectives and emerging themes across different levels of analysis, Industry and Innovation, 24:1, 8-40, DOI: 10.1080/13662716.2016.1240068 To link to this article: https://doi.org/10. 1080/13662716.2016.1240068 Published online: 07 Nov 2016.Submit your article to this journal This paper provides an overview of the main perspectives and themes emerging in research on open innovation (OI). The paper is the result of a collaborative process among several OI scholarshaving a common basis in the recurrent Professional Development Workshop on 'Researching Open Innovation' at the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management. In this paper, we present opportunities for future research on OI, organised at different levels of analysis. We discuss some of the contingencies at these different levels, and argue that future research needs to study OI -originally an organisationallevel phenomenon -across multiple levels of analysis. integrative framework allows comparing, contrasting and integrating various perspectives at different levels of analysis, further theorising will be needed to advance OI research. On this basis, we propose some new research categories as well as questions for future research -particularly those that span across research domains that have so far developed in isolation.

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“…In their article 'The open innovation research landscape: established perspectives and emerging themes across different levels of analysis' , Bogers et al (2017) present opportunities for future research on open innovation at different levels of analysis. The authors discuss contingency factors at these different levels and propose questions for future research that span across research domains that until now have been isolated.…”

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“…Given that various types and modes of collaborative innovations are flourishing in the city context (Sutinen et al, 2016), cities have drawn increasing attention from both innovation scholars and practitioners. Experimentation, innovation, and development activities in cities include a variety of modes of collaborative innovation, including hackathons, innovation labs, innovative purchasing, open spaces, participatory budgeting, makerspaces, fablabs, co-working places, and innovation spaces (e.g., Bogers et al, 2017;Hyysalo et al, 2014Hyysalo et al, , 2016Kohtala & Hyysalo, 2015, Schuurman & Tõnurist, 2016.…”

“…Given that various types and modes of collaborative innovations are flourishing in the city context (Sutinen et al, 2016), cities have drawn increasing attention from both innovation scholars and practitioners. Experimentation, innovation, and development activities in cities include a variety of modes of collaborative innovation, including hackathons, innovation labs, innovative purchasing, open spaces, participatory budgeting, makerspaces, fablabs, co-working places, and innovation spaces (e.g., Bogers et al, 2017; Hyysalo et al, 2014 Hyysalo et al, , 2016 Kohtala & Hyysalo, 2015, Schuurman & Tõnurist, 2016.Acknowledging the categorization of living labs phenomenon by Leminen (2015) -in other words, viewing living labs as a context, a method, and a conceptualization -the present study contributes to this perspective and labels the variety of collaborative innovation as "third-generation living lab networks". The first of generation living labs focused on the landscape(s) of living labs as real-life environments intertwined with users and stakeholder activities.…”

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“…For the case of inbound strategies, Dahlander and Gann (2010) distinguish between acquiring and sourcing from external resources, with the latter relating to this paper. Empirical studies mostly based on firm-level data show positive effects of these open innovation practices on firms' innovation performance (see Bogers et al, 2017, for comprehensive reviews).…”