Ideate. Collaborate. Repeat. A Research Agenda for Idea Generation, Collaboration and Evaluation in Open Innovation

Open innovation has been and remains to be a rapidly changing field of research in Information Systems and various other disciplines. With the rise of professional open innovation platforms and the emergence of crowdsourcing as well as employee-driven innovation, studies on the front-end of open innovation – namely idea generation, collaboration and evaluation – are facing new challenges. In this structured literature review, we analyze a large body of prior research in order to derive a framework, which is able to classify and reflect the lively debate on open innovation. In addition, we identify important implications for practitioners with advise on the design of open innovation systems. Moreover, our study identifies several promising areas for future research.