Framing innovation practices in interstitial issue fields: open innovation in the NYC administration

Good Practices in Open Innovation

OVERVIEW. Open innovation (OI) has become a mainstream organizational process. Firms are establishing OI groups, allocating budgets, and measuring results. In this article, we identify twelve “good practices” associated with high quality open innovation efforts. In our experience, these practices are key inputs to the fi rm’s OI system, leading to high quality results when effectively executed....

Factors affecting open innovation in public hospitals of Guilan province

Introduction: In the present era, the implementation of open innovation process is necessary for any organization, and hospitals as the main medical centers are no exception. In fact, hospitals, as health operational units, are always directly exposed to changes in the field of health services. Therefore, the present study has investigated the factors affecting open innovation in public hospita...

Classification of the Open Innovation Practices: the Creativity Level

The body of knowledge in open innovation (OI) has been growing and, nowadays, it is one of the most popular and debated concepts in innovation management. However, the literature on OI is fragmented, many definitions have been used across the studies and in each paper different characteristics of open innovation are assessed. This issue creates many “flavors” of OI, which in turn creates obstac...

Framing Innovation Policy for Transformative Change: Innovation Policy 3.0

Partnership in Open Innovation

This paper aims at assessing the importance of the initial technological endowments when firms decide to create R&D agreements. We study a Bertrand duopoly where firms evaluate the returns of an agreement according to its length. A learning process allows us to depict a close connection between firms’ technology and the possibility to achieve a positive outcome from creating an agreement. Moreo...