Conceptualizing open distributed innovation: A framework for the collaboration of private companies with grassroots‐driven open communities

Engineering Open Innovation - Towards a Framework for Fostering Open Innovation

Open innovation is an emerging innovation paradigm that can greatly accelerate technical knowledge innovation in software companies. The increasing importance and density of software in today’s products and services puts extensive pressure on excelling the discovery, description and execution of innovation. Despite that, software engineering literature lacks methods, tools and frameworks for fu...

Open Collaboration for Innovation: Principles and Performance

Open source software is booming. Once the domain of hobbyists and hackers, it has gained acceptance with consumers, corporations, and governments. Some exemplars of open source, such as the Linux and Android operating systems, are now commonplace, operating millions of devices. Together with other products of open source software, they have been creating billions of dollars in economic value (E...

Knowledge Management in Railway Industry: A Conceptual Model Based on Open Innovation and online Communities

Organizations need to be capable of attracting external knowledge. This activity is extremely related to innovation process and particularly to open innovation approach. Therefore, this qualitative research is designed to identify the dimensions and components for providing a conceptual model of KM architecture by open innovation approach based on online communities in the grounded theory frame...

Open innovation as a strategy for small high–tech companies

Developing a Framework to Manage a Pharmaceutical Innovation Ecosystem: Collaboration Archetypes, Open Innovation Tools, and Strategies

Based on an in-depth case study of the ecosystem of one of the world ́s largest healthcare companies including internal and external data collected since 2009, and through over 50 interviews with key stakeholders from Biotech companies, Academia, Contract Research Organizations, and Venture Capital firms this article elaborates on the challenges and opportunities of collaborative innovation in t...