Open innovation from the inside: Employee-driven innovation in support of absorptive capacity for inbound open innovation

This article analyzes how employee-driven innovation (EDI), an innovation policy mainly aimed at non-research and development (non-RD (2) EDI develops a broader range of gatekeepers among non-RD (3) EDI diversifies knowledge sources (scientific, industrial, and user based) as well as different types of innovation (incremental, disruptive, product, and process) with internal and external knowledge combinations; and (4) EDI favors doing, using, and interacting in addition to science, technology, and innovation learning processes.