Open Innovation in Ecosystems – A Service Science Perspective on Open Innovation

Uncovering value creation in innovation ecosystems: paths towards shared value

“…on patents ("play inside the box strategy") (Bosch-Sijtsema and Bosch, 2014). Concerning alignment, authors agree that a shared purpose of value creation, a coherent ecosystem model shaped around SV proposition, a unique mission and an overarching goal (Walrave et al, 2018;Russell and Smorodinskaya, 2018;Benz and Seebacher, 2018) are relevant for internal alignment. Then, a balance between internal alignment and external viability should be found while shaping strategies at IE level (Kukk et al, 2015;Radziwon et al, 2017;Walrave et al, 2018).…”

“…Second, coopetition (Nalebuff and Brandenburger, 1997) well applies to systemic contexts (and thus to IEs), where actors are independent players that may compete while aiming at collaborating to cocreate (Benz and Seebacher, 2018;Wegmann et al, 2018). Collaboration is key so to enhance knowledge exchange and generation (Boschma, 2005;Ben Letaifa and Rabeau, 2013) amongst actors which complement each other's in a non-generic way (Jacobides et al, 2018).…”

“…The second aspect characterizing mechanisms is the level of openness, intended as the extent to which mechanisms favour the sharing of resources (especially data and knowledge) (Benz and Seebacher, 2018). The level of openness should be carefully “designed”: it can be supported by the implementation of interconnected and flexible infrastructure (physical and virtual).…”

“…IEs are generally considered inherently capable of creating socio-economic benefits for multiple stakeholders (Liu et al, 2016;Benz and Seebacher, 2018;Alberti and Belfanti, 2019;Huang et al, 2019;Knockaert et al, 2019) or, in Porter and Kramer's terminology, shared value (SV; Porter and Kramer, 2011) [1]. Therefore, it is widely accepted that actors within an IE can both improve their own results (Knockaert et al, 2019) and generate collective impacts for the Innovation ecosystems towards shared value system as a whole (Adner, 2006;Adner and Kapoor, 2010;Russell and Smorodinskaya, 2018) and the society at large (Guerrero et al, 2016;Radziwon et al, 2017;Del Vecchio et al, 2017;Lopes and Farinha, 2018;Audretsch et al, 2019).…”

“…IEs are generally considered inherently capable of creating socio-economic benefits for multiple stakeholders (Liu et al , 2016; Benz and Seebacher, 2018; Alberti and Belfanti, 2019; Huang et al , 2019; Knockaert et al , 2019) or, in Porter and Kramer’s terminology, shared value (SV; Porter and Kramer, 2011) [1]. Therefore, it is widely accepted that actors within an IE can both improve their own results (Knockaert et al.…”