Applications of open innovation to the supply chain system in the SMEs
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The close-knitted structure of a supply chain seems to leave no room for the word 'open'. Closeness builds trust, enables information sharing, benefits transportation and more. Somehow, openness started to benefit supply chain management recently, through a trend called 'open innovation'. Based on gathered anecdotes and our interviews of industry professionals, we attempted to present a more complete picture of open innovation in supply chain management, including its potential benefits, major concerns, adoption hurdles, and future solutions. Our findings identified current perceptions of supply chain practitioners on open innovation and major hurdles and difficulties of implementing open innovation in supply chain functions other than just product development. Our research contributed to the current literature of open innovation by updating its implementation status, identifying adoption and implementation issues, and proposing strategic considerations within the context of supply chain management.Keywords:
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The open innovation paradigm brought forward by Henry Chesbrough offers a new way of thinking and managing about innovation.Open innovation can speed innovation;reduce the uncertainty of technology and market.It could also provide access to more ideas than could be developed in-house.By leveraging the discoveries of others,companies can produce spectacular results.Too open will bring negative impacts also because of the costs for searching and the leakage of key technology.This paper empirically verifies the relationship between the degree of openness and the innovation performance.We find that the more open in the innovation process,the higher innovation performance would be.This paper finds that the negative impact is insignificant.It is because the degree of openness is not enough for Chinese firms.The ability of using and integrating external knowledge is crucial for Chinese firms to improve the technological innovation capability.
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Offered here is a conceptual model that systematically describes the microfoundations of openness and innovation performance and thus the precursory requirements for any open innovation activity. The more refined perspective developed in this papers leads to a set of propositions regarding how individual characteristics influence openness and innovation performance and thus the open innovation activities of individuals. By deriving a model of search that considers how personal characteristics influence openness and innovation performance, this article offers three contributions as it strives to answer the following questions.(1) What are the microfoundations on which the phenomenon of open innovation rests? (2) What are the personal characteristics that determine heightened levels of openness and innovation performance in individuals? and (3) What are the normative consequences for managers who intend to engage in open innovation activities? Finally, the paper sets an agenda for future research in this area.
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A growing range of public, private and civic organisations, from Unicef through Nesta to NHS, now run units known as “innovation labs”. The hopeful assumption they share is that labs, by building on openness among other features, can generate promising solutions to grand challenges of systemic nature. Despite their seeming proliferation and popularisation, the underlying innovation principles embodied by labs have, however, received scant academic attention. This is a missed opportunity, because innovation labs appear to leverage openness for radical innovation in an unusual fashion. Indeed, in this exploratory paper we draw on original interview data and online self-descriptions to illustrate that, beyond convening “uncommon partners” across organisational boundaries, labs apply the principle of openness throughout the innovation process, including the experimentation and development phases. While the emergence of labs clearly forms part of a broader trend towards openness, we show how it transcends established conceptualisations of open innovation (Chesbrough, 2006), open science (David, 1998) or open government (Janssen et al., 2012).
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ABSTRACT In the past, high‐tech enterprises aimed to apply for patents to protect their innovation and obtain a competitive advantage. However, Open Innovation models encourage enterprises to open and exchange knowledge to accelerate technology development because of higher innovation complexity. Nonetheless, the impacts of open knowledge on follow‐on innovation are unclear. Tesla's patent openness event provides a better opportunity to observe a causal relationship between open knowledge and follow‐on innovation as it is an exogenous shock for the whole Electric Vehicle (EV) field. Against this backdrop, this poster uses patent data of Tesla and EVs before and after the open‐patent events from Derwent Innovations Index (DII) between 2003 and 2020. The difference‐in‐difference regression results show that patent openness has an inhibition effect on follow‐on patents and patentees and the high‐value open patents will strengthen this inhibition effect. Surprisingly, once technologies were shocked by openness, more open patents would stimulate them to boost in the future.
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Innovation of Polish SMEs is relatively low. There are two main causes of this situation: the low potential of the enterprises (their limited resources) and relatively low innovation openness (open innovation, measured by the tendency for cooperation with the environment - other companies, business or research institutions). The most important (in the process of implementation of innovations) are relationships which are created between "openness" and the innovation potential. The following thesis is widely popular: higher propensity to exchange knowledge (in the range of open innovation conception) contributes to improving innovation potential. Therefore, the main purpose of this article is to determine the existing relations between openness to innovation (open innovation) and innovation potential. The specific objectives include: examining the level of openness of SMEs (measured by propensity for cooperation with the environment), taking into account a number of variables. as well as the correlation (and its strength) between these two elements. The research was conducted in 2013/2014 in the framework of research project: The concept of "open innovation" in small and medium-sized enterprises - models, trends and determinants of development (UMO-2012/07/B/HS4/03085). In order to implement the objectives and verify the research hypotheses, diagnostics was based on conducting direct interviews with selected companies by means of the CATI method using a survey form. The study encompassed the companies which over the last three years conducted innovation activities involving the implementation of innovative solutions in different areas.
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Open innovation has rendered increased interest both in practice and research, and has expanded from dyadic transfers of ideas, to ecosystem levels. Knowledge is at the heart of open innovation, and this paper describes and discusses knowledge-transfer linkages for open innovation. It does so based on a literature review. The paper links together open innovation research with general management research to categorise and discuss linkages among parties in terms of their openness and how they relate to knowledge management. Conclusions indicate that openness needs to be considered in different dimensions that also links to different knowledge management outcomes. The paper's contribution consists of how it connects open innovation research to the general management literature, and how it builds a practical understanding of how linkages between firms can be categorised to aid firms to consider which mechanisms they may choose and why.
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