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Managing Open Innovation: Connecting the Firm to External Knowledge
Author(s): André Spithoven (Author), Peter Teirlinck (Author), Dirk Frantzen (Author)
- Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
- Publication Date: 30 July 2012
- Language: English
- Print length: 352 pages
- ISBN-10: 1781000204
- ISBN-13: 9781781000205
Book Description
Open innovation is about firms’ external relations with other firms and organizations. It is a topic which has attracted an immense amount of attention, but which has also been heavily criticized due to the diversity of the ideas and fuzziness of its key concepts. To date, the bulk of the literature on open innovation draws on case study material to illustrate the operation of firms in an anecdotal way. By contrast, this book examines open innovation practices by using large-scale data sets and stresses their impact on firm performance. The authors examine four key issues: differences between firms in open innovation practices, public funding to enhance external relations, R&D outsourcing of firms, and the role of human resources in R&D and innovation.
The conceptual and measurement issues attached to open innovation explored in this timely book will prove essential to academics. Practitioners from large firms who are closely engaged in the practical organization of open innovation will benefit from the authors insights on outsourcing R&D and the need for the right kinds of human resources.
Editorial Reviews
Review
’Research and open innovation has been developed exponentially in the last five years, but strong empirical evidence on several research questions is still lacking. The authors offer via detailed large scale empirical research, interesting answers on how to manage open innovation and how to shape policy conditions that lead to more open innovation.’
– Wim Vanhaverbeke, University of Hasselt, Belgium
– Wim Vanhaverbeke, University of Hasselt, Belgium
About the Author
André Spithoven, Belgian Science Policy Office and Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Peter Teirlinck, Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussel and Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Dirk Frantzen, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
