Open innovation is based on a different knowledge landscape, with a different logic about the sources and uses of ideas. It implies that firms increasingly rely on external sources of innovation by emphasizing these ideas and resources. Recently, really good ideas are coming from outside the organization, especially in the high-tech industry. Using datasets from the UK biotechnology industry, t...

Strategists call the successful launch of new, game-changing products like the iPhone “innovation shocks.” An innovation shock arises when the specific combination of an innovative product or service leads to a rapid rise in demand in that product or service category. It rocks an entire industry, leaving rival firms scrambling to figure out how to respond. Should rival firms faced with this fol...

A focus on top line growth necessarily brings IT into the mainstream of product/service innovation, which in turn means that IT must assume a customer focus, assimilate new skills, and build collaborations with the business development arm of the organization. It also leads IT into the realm of organizational innovation and the world of strategic experimentation with IT. This paper introduces t...

While the concept of open innovation has attracted significant industry and research interest in the past five years, there remains a paucity of research on the application of the concept in noncommercial settings. This paper presents an exploration of a network of Swedish municipal authorities. Within this network, we have observed a move from isolated innovation to the purposive leveraging of...

In recent years, though, the concept of fit has been now in widespread used in strategic management research, it is in its infancy for applying fit concept to service innovation issue. Therefore, drawing on the concept of fit, this present research proposed an innovation service fit model within service innovation, market orientation, marketing strategy, and IT adoption are coexisted. The persp...

In today’s dynamic and hypercompetitive business environment, knowledge and innovation have emerged as bases for sustained competitive advantage. This paper addresses two specific research questions. First, we ask, “What is the effect that firm interactivity has on various types of innovation?” As we address this question, we explain that interactivity helps firms create knowledge, which then p...

The present paper empirically tests the effect which internal/external collaboration has on innovation height and identifies characteristics of collaboration patterns leading to entrepreneurial innovation in particular. Doing so adds to the understanding of how corporate entrepreneurship best unfolds as interfirm activity, which here is termed collaborative entrepreneurship, and provides detail...