Based on my research and data collection from 2008, the European Journal of Innovation Management and the International Journal of Innovation and Regional Development have recently published two articles of my work on Open Innovation Adoption:
- The first paper ("Open innovation modes and the role of internal R&D: An empirical study on open innovation adoption in Europe") focuses on the adoption level in Europe in general, but also maps current adoption behaviours (outside-in, inside-out) on a 2x2-matrix and defines three clusters of open innovation adoption (closed, medium and open innovators).
- The second paper ("Determinants of open innovation: an empirical study on organisational, market, and human drivers of open innovation adoption across Europe") focused on characteristics based in the industry (market), the company (organisational), and the company leaders (human) which are incluencing open innovation adoption. With our regression model we can predict open innovation usage (or variance of OI usage) with a relatively high R² of 0.380.
If your university doesn't provide you access to these papers, please contact me and I may send you the PDF-articles.
Also upcoming: A state-of-the-art review article on empirical open innovation publications between 2003 and 2012, with a special focus on quantitative (large-scale) empirical literature on open innovation adoption, open innovation modes and adoption drivers. This study will compare 30 empirical papers and will be published in 2012 in the Journal für Betriebswirtschaft (JfB) (Journal is partly in German, but article will be in English).
Because of current developments we are leaving the firm perspective for this blogpost in order to focus on application of the open innovation paradigm in other areas, like politics. Innovation does not only include product innovation, but also includes service innovation, process innovation and business innovation. Hence, also Government, Non-Government Organizations and Political Parties could successfully apply Open Innovation.
