Open Innovation - Kooperative Innovationsprozesse in Netzwerken

Open Innovation is a phenomenon that has become increasingly important for both practice and theory over the last few years. The reasons are to be found in shorter innovation cycles, industrial research and development?s escalating costs as well as in the dearth of resources. Subsequently, the open source phenomenon has attracted innovation researchers and practitioners. The recent era of open innovation started when practitioners realised that companies that wished to commercialise both their own ideas as well as other firms? innovation should seek new ways to bring their in-house ideas to market. They need to deploy pathways outside their current businesses and should realise that the locus where knowledge is created does not necessarily always equal the locus of innovation - they need not both be found within the company. Experience has furthermore shown that neither the locus of innovation nor exploitation need lie within companies? own boundaries. However, emulation of the open innovation approach transforms a company?s solid boundaries into a semi-permeable membrane that enables innovation to move more easily between the external environment and the company?s internal innovation process.

Betreut durch Prof. O. Gassmann