The concept of “responsible (research and) innovation” (RRI) can refer to a number of separate but interlinked questions: who is responsible? what are they responsible for? why are they responsible? or what are the consequences of these responsibilities? are just some of the more obvious ones. This chapter will discuss some of the most pertinent of these questions with reference to information ...

Innovation management focuses too much on processes and tools, whereas entrepreneurship is pre-occupied with individual personal traits. However, many of the most successful innovations were co-created by multiple entrepreneurs, and it is this interaction of talent that is at the core of radical innovation, what we call Conjoint Innovation. We examine 15 cases, historical and contemporary, to i...

Innovation is a distributed process that involves the collective efforts and the interaction of heterogeneous organisations. Each of those actors is specialised in specific activities, technologies and knowledge and innovation is the result of the combination and integration of their activities. Coordination is a key determinant for the viability of distributed innovation in that it stimulates ...

Henry Chesbrough introduced the term ‘open innovation’ in 2003 to describe the systematic integration of external inputs in some (or even all) stages of the innovation process. One of his principles is that companies that adopt an open innovative approach have to recognize that “not all the smart people work for my company.” One of my favorite examples of this statement’s power is InnoCentive. ...

By opening up a technology, firms can incorporate external actors to improve their products or to develop new applications on top of it. This phenomenon is discussed in the literature as open innovation (Chesbrough, 2003). An embedded system is an example of a modular and traditionally closed technology where parts of the system can be opened in order to stimulate innovation. In this paper, we ...

Innovation challenges are increasingly adopted for idea generation in interand intrafirm innovation to elicit novel solutions from employees to strategic and businessrelated problems of the firm. However, the current idea-oriented approach is limited in leveraging the full capacity of open innovation, as it focuses more on identifying the best ideas through competition rather than generating ne...

We propose and analyze a two-country model of endogenous innovation cycles. In autarky, innovation fluctuations in the two countries are decoupled. As the trade cost falls and intra-industry trade rises, they become synchronized. This is because globalization leads to the alignment of innovation incentives across firms based in different countries, as they operate in the increasingly global (he...

Purpose – In this paper, the authors aim to explore how students learn how to learn in a team-based graduate course Designing for Open Innovation using a theoretical framework that focuses on the cognitive functions of team-based processes and team performance. Design/methodology/approach – An automated assessment methodology for the structural and semantic analysis of individual and shared kno...

Can we move beyond simply networking creative individuals to establishing diverse communities of practice for innovation through discursive methods. Furthermore, can we digitise their creativity activities within an integrative socio-cultural collaborative technology platform that could then support distributed innovation. First, we consider the complexity of creative cultures from the perspect...

This research presents and analyzes an empirically grounded account of a new trend, open innovation, in the IT industry. The case depicts another new trend, innovation through customization of standard software as a business model, and we investigate the open innovation activities of an interorganizational network which consists of a small customizing company, a large global software producer, ...