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 […]
The main objective of the study is to investigate how firms can improve their performance. In particular, the impact of the creation of knowledge by firms (closed innovation) or the share of knowledge among firms (open innovation) on the firms’ performance is investigated. Both economic and innovation performance are considered. The economic performance is evaluated […]
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, […]
Digital entrepreneurship represents a relevant socio-economic and technological phenomenon that creates new spaces of opportunities where different kind of organizations can leverage digital technologies to shift the traditional mode of creating, supporting and doing business. Among these organizations, incubators should effectively exploit digital technologies to support the creation and development of innovative startups. Notwithstanding, some […]
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 […]
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 […]
Purpose – Still little is known about the determinants of the openness degree. Examples of investigated determinants are firm-specific or environmental/external factors. However, the role exerted by some of them remains unclear. In particular, it is still debated the influence by the so-called “technology aggressiveness”. As a matter of fact, evidences on the relationships between […]