Knowledge Sharing in Open Innovation: An Overview of Theoretical Perspectives on Collaborative Innovation

TY - CHAP

T1 - Knowledge Sharing in Open Innovation

T2 - An Overview of Theoretical Perspectives on Collaborative Innovation

AU - Bogers, Marcel

PY - 2011

Y1 - 2011

N2 - Open innovation has received an increasing amount of attention from innovation scholars and practitioners alike. As a specific type of open innovation, collaborative innovation combines knowledge inflows and outflows and is thus at the core of open innovation. To better understand this coupled process of open innovation, this chapter provides an overview of the theoretical perspectives on open collaborative innovation. In particular, knowledge sharing is considered as a main driver of successful collaborative innovation. Accordingly, the chapter reviews some of the main trends in practices and theories related to open collaborative innovation. The main purpose is to provide an overview of the main perspectives on collaborative knowledge sharing within established economic organization and strategic management theories. Thus, by providing a more solid theoretical basis for future work in open innovation, this chapter contributed to the theory behind open innovation, which in turn can be used to inform open innovation practices.

AB - Open innovation has received an increasing amount of attention from innovation scholars and practitioners alike. As a specific type of open innovation, collaborative innovation combines knowledge inflows and outflows and is thus at the core of open innovation. To better understand this coupled process of open innovation, this chapter provides an overview of the theoretical perspectives on open collaborative innovation. In particular, knowledge sharing is considered as a main driver of successful collaborative innovation. Accordingly, the chapter reviews some of the main trends in practices and theories related to open collaborative innovation. The main purpose is to provide an overview of the main perspectives on collaborative knowledge sharing within established economic organization and strategic management theories. Thus, by providing a more solid theoretical basis for future work in open innovation, this chapter contributed to the theory behind open innovation, which in turn can be used to inform open innovation practices.

U2 - 10.4018/978-1-61350-341-6.ch001

DO - 10.4018/978-1-61350-341-6.ch001

M3 - Book chapter

SP - 1

EP - 14

BT - Open innovation at Firms and Public Administrations

A2 - de Pablos Heredero, Carmen

A2 - López, David

PB - IGI global

CY - Hershey, PA

ER -