Mapping the Open Innovation Ecosystem: An Analysis of the Technical and Strategic Level

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The scope of this paper is to further extend the classification of the open innovation activities in order to provide a template to the case studies and theories, in the field, to come. Also, it serves as guidance to practitioners deploy supportive capabilities to their exact needs. A review of the literature, indexed by ISI Web of Knowledge and Scopus, of the studies that could respond the why’s and how’s of the open innovation process was done. Based on this review, we propose an extension of the current view (inbound, outbound and coupled) encompassing two other variables, called levels (technical level and strategy level). These two new variables crossed against the current archetype (inbound, outbound and coupled) provide a six type classification. We further analyze each of these types, examining their usefulness and exemplifying how it has been applied by companies.

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Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 945-949)

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