Extant organizational learning theory conceptualizes organizational learning as an internal, member-based process, sometimes supported by, yet often independent of, IT. Recently, however, several organizations have begun to involve non-members systematically in their learning by using crowdsourcing, a form of open innovation enabled by state-of-the-art IT. We examine the phenomenon of IT-enable...

There are many ways an organization can approach innovation. On one end of the spectrum an organization can choose to have everyone submit any idea. On the other, innovation can be generated from a small, dedicated group of specialists. In the middle there are many variations along the way. This paper discusses the open innovation typology and the options for an organization making the decision...

Many countries face severe challenges in health care, especially soaring costs. Innovative products and services are needed to help increase the quality of care and to reduce costs. In the field of rare diseases, which often is not attractive economically, the situation is even more serious. Building on extant research on open innovation, we use a design science approach to study an open innova...

1 Learning from experience Innovation in the NHS is now being driven regionally by strategic health authorities. Learning how other national and international organisations have approached, planned and embedded innovation will help SHAs foster a culture of innovation. This overview outlines key evidence about what has worked well and what has been challenging elsewhere in adopting and dissemina...

The paradox of open innovation lies in the conflict between the practical desire to reap the benefits of open innovation and concern over the risk that others will misappropriate those benefits. Stakeholder theory and recent developments in value creation through stakeholder engagement can assist with reconciliation of this inherent structural risk. The limitations of existing open innovation t...

Universities have played a continued role in facilitating and enhancing the innovative potential of U.S. companies. Key to these relationships is the transfer of knowledge both from university to industry as well as from industry to university. But, few researchers have explored how different relationships necessitate specific cultural orientations, absorptive capacity abilities, and management...

Innovation is the core motivation of the economic development, while the open innovation model provides our country enterprise an opportunity to improve the innovation capability. The implementation of the open innovation improve the enterprise innovation capacity, for it makes the enterprise can effectively integrate internal and external innovation resources, constructs a new innovation syste...

This paper focuses on coupled processes with key suppliers, which we call supply chain-open innovativeness relationships. Drawing on social exchange theory, we identify some antecedents of this orientation in the relationship an organization can maintain with its key supplier. We measure some of these constructs in terms of gap by comparing perceptions with previous expectations. We also analyz...

Advances in technology and digitalisation have changed the ways services are created and offered to users. Successful new innovative services and service value co-creation are done in collaboration with organisations and actors in contexts such as business ecosystems. The research relating to service design and open innovation in business ecosystems is cross-disciplinary, and relevant knowledge...