Key settings for successful Open Innovation Arena

Standardization as an Arena for Open Innovation

This paper argues that anticipatory standardization can be viewed as an arena for open innovation and shows this through two cases from mobile telecommunication standardization. One case is the Android initiative by Google and the Open Handset Alliance, while the second case is the general standardization work of the Open Mobile Alliance. The paper shows how anticipatory standardization intenti...

Key Enabler for Innovation

Economy and industry is experiencing a transformation towards software-and services-based businesses. Modern products and services increasingly embed software, or are cus-tomized, optimized or managed using software (examples include health, transportation, and utilities). Software engineering is thus playing an increasingly important key role in the responsiveness , quality and security of man...

Engineering Open Innovation - Towards a Framework for Fostering Open Innovation

Open innovation is an emerging innovation paradigm that can greatly accelerate technical knowledge innovation in software companies. The increasing importance and density of software in today’s products and services puts extensive pressure on excelling the discovery, description and execution of innovation. Despite that, software engineering literature lacks methods, tools and frameworks for fu...

The Market for Open Innovation

Partner Selection for Open Innovation

Open innovation is a popular approach within innovation studies and innovation in practice. Open innovation is defined as "the use of purposive inflows and outflows of knowledge to accelerate internal innovation, and extend the markets for external use of innovation, respectively" (Chesbrough et al., 2006; tinyurl.com/ d5aaxah). A significant amount of research has been devoted to different asp...