Background: The European Medical Devices Regulation (MDR) 2017/745 seeks to minimize clinical uncertainty – especially regarding the generation, dissemination, and quality of clinical evidence – across all phases of the medical device lifecycle: pre-market, market approval, post-market, and disinvestment. Although the MDR promotes using gold-standard methodologies, such as Randomized Controlled Trials to address clinical uncertainty, […]
The internal innovation activities of firms often encounter obstacles (i.e., factors hampering innovation activities) such as economic constraints and lack of skilled employees within enterprises, prompting them to adopt an Open Innovation (OI) approach as a means to overcome the obstacles and thus to achieve innovation performance, intended as Innovation Industrial Performance (IIP) and Innovation […]
A firm can improve its innovation processes by accessing useful external knowledge, profiting from the Open Innovation outside-in process. However, to benefit from the flow of knowledge from the firm’s outside boundary, the firm’s Absorptive Capacity – the ability to correctly acquire, assimilate, transform, and exploit external knowledge according to the innovation needs – plays […]
With the advent of the Digital Transformation, Healthcare Systems have switched from paper to electronic health records (EMR). However, there are few critical issues related to data governance (e.g., transparency of data, traceability, immutability, privacy and security) that need to be addressed in the upcoming years. Blockchain (BT) is a decentralized digital ledger and an […]
The Copernicus Programme leaded by ESA (European Space Agency) has/is released/ing a huge amount of Earth Observation data and therefore firms operating in the Space Industry aim at getting most out of them. However, this is not straightforward in that, to be exploited, data need to be processed and interpreted and this, on its turn, […]
Antecedents of Business Model Innovation (BMI) may be many, different in nature, placed at several levels, and they can be internal or external to the firm. The current debate has barely connected such antecedents to the type of innovation of the Business Model (BM), if modular or architectural. To fill this gap, our study draws […]
The exploitation Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in knowledge transfer from and to external partners is a nontrivial management issue (Awazu et al., 2009; Cui et al., 2015). How ICT platforms could enable connectivity and collaboration is a compelling scientific topic in the next OI research agenda (Bogers et al., 2017). Accordingly, this manuscript aims […]
This paper aims at investigating how the degree of openness, in a depth conception (Laursen and Salter, 2006) and with scientific partners is associated to innovation performance, measured through the number of patent application. Moreover, we provide a detailed and contextual analysis which assigns to a multifaceted setting for innovation a crucial role in shaping […]
Purpose – Open innovation (OI) literature suggests that firms can improve their innovation performance by learning from a large set of actors in the innovation process. However, although this premise, the extant literature has rather completely overlooked the ‘who’ question: which partners should be included in the different phases of the innovation funnel? How should […]
Open innovation literature suggests that firms can improve their innovation performance by learning from users, customers, suppliers, universities, research centers. However, the success of such new paradigm is still debatable and literature is searching for its determinants. In particular, the firms’ internal organizational context seems to be crucial to explain the success or failure of […]