The Open Innovation Research Landscape: Established Perspectives and Emerging Themes across Different Levels of Analysis
Industry and Innovation, 2017, Volume 24, Issue 1, Pages 8-40, DOI: 10.1080/13662716.2016.1240068
49 Pages
Posted: 5 Aug 2016
Last revised: 31 May 2017
University of Copenhagen - Department of Food and Resource Economics (IFRO)
ETH Zurich
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Corporate Strategy and International Business; University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School of Business
ESADE Business School
Purdue University - Research Center for Open Digital Innovation (RCODI); Purdue University - Discovery Park
ESMT European School of Management and Technology
University of Aarhus - School of Business and Social Sciences
University of Surrey
Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne - MTEI
ETH Zürich - Department of Management, Technology, and Economics (D-MTEC); City, University of London
Maastricht University, School of Business and Economics
JKU Linz | Institute for Public and Nonprofit Management; RWTH Aachen University - Technology and Innovation Management Group
Copenhagen Business School - Department of Industrial Economics & Strategy (IVS)
KTH Royal Institute of Technology
University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business
Simon Fraser University (SFU) - Beedie School of Business
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg; HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
RWTH Aachen University
University of Southern Denmark
Politecnico di Milano
Babson College - Management Division
Imperial College Business School
Date Written: June 26, 2016
Abstract
This paper provides an overview of the main perspectives and themes emerging in research on open innovation. The paper is the result of a collaborative process among several open innovation scholars — having a common basis in the recurrent Professional Development Workshop (PDW) on “Researching Open Innovation” at the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management. In this paper, we present opportunities for future research on open innovation, organized at different levels of analysis. We discuss some of the contingencies at these different levels, and argue that future research needs to study open innovation — originally an organizational-level phenomenon — across multiple levels of analysis. While our integrative framework allows comparing, contrasting, and integrating different perspectives at different levels of analysis, further theorizing will be needed to advance open innovation research. On this basis, we propose some new research categories as well as questions for future research — particularly those that span across research domains that have so far developed in isolation.
Keywords: Open Innovation, Review, Research, Theory, Contingencies, Knowledge, Collaboration
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Bogers, Marcel and Zobel, Ann-Kristin and Afuah, Allan and Almirall, Esteve and Brunswicker, Sabine and Dahlander, Linus and Frederiksen, Lars and Gawer, Annabelle and Gruber, Marc and Haefliger, Stefan and Hagedoorn, John and Hilgers, Dennis and Laursen, Keld and Magnusson, Mats and Majchrzak, Ann and McCarthy, Ian P. and Moeslein, Kathrin M. and Nambisan, Satish and Piller, Frank T. and Radziwon, Agnieszka and Rossi Lamastra, Cristina and Sims, Jonathan and Ter Wal, Anne L. J., The Open Innovation Research Landscape: Established Perspectives and Emerging Themes across Different Levels of Analysis (June 26, 2016). Industry and Innovation, 2017, Volume 24, Issue 1, Pages 8-40, DOI: 10.1080/13662716.2016.1240068. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2817865 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2817865
