Dynamic Model for Open Innovation Network

Outsourcing as Open Innovation: Exploring Preconditions for the Open Innovation Model inthe Process Industry

The open innovation model embraces the purposive flow of internal and external ideas as a ground for innovation and network formation. While the open innovation paradigm has been successfully applied in high-tech settings, there is a gap in the research on adopters of open innovation in other settings. This research was conducted in a process industry setting, performed as a case study at Alpha...

A Dynamic Network Approach to Breakthrough Innovation

This paper outlines a framework for the study of innovation that treats discoveries as additions to evolving networks. As inventions enter they expand or limit the reach of the ideas they build on by influencing how successive discoveries use those ideas. The approach is grounded in novel measures of the extent to which an innovation amplifies or disrupts the status quo. Those measures index th...

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...

An Informational Model of Open Innovation

The chapter proposes an outline of an informational model of open innovation. This model can be a foundation for establishing an innovation facility by a production or service provider entity. The pillars of the model are: (i) access to and extensive use of up-to-date information, knowledge, and best practices; (ii) the use of efficient and user friendly knowledge management systems based on ad...

The Open execuTiOn MOdel: Innovation Across Boundaries