Open Innovation in the automotive industry: Why and How? Evidence from a multiple case study

Lazzarotti, Valentina; Manzini, Raffaella; Pellegrini, Luisa; Pizzurno, Emanuele

doi:10.1504/ijtip.2013.052620

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“…Integrating outside-industry knowledge poses particular challenges, however. In their study of three cases in the automotive industry on the use of open innovation, Lazzarotti et al (2013) found that knowledge stemming 7 from universities was often considered "far from the market". Even in those cases where a carmaker did manage to set up a successful collaboration with an outside industry innovator, the innovator would seldom transition from a technology supplier to a component supplier with production responsibilities for series.…”

Section: Open Innovation In the Automotive Industrymentioning

confidence: 99%

Managing knowledge boundaries for open innovation – lessons from the automotive industry

Wilhelm

Dolfsma

2018

IJOPM

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Purpose The rising need to innovate and obtain knowledge from more distant knowledge sources calls for new innovation strategies and a better integration of other external actors who lie outside the traditional automotive supply chain. Such an open innovation strategy challenges organizational boundaries both on the firm and supply chain level, yet our understanding of the functioning of such boundaries and how they can be managed to allow for purposive knowledge flows is limited. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach In a longitudinal case study, the authors trace the development of the first open innovation network in the German automotive industry over a period of five years based on archival data, semi-structured interviews, and field observations. Findings While the automotive industry is advanced in collaborating with suppliers for innovation, routines for assessing and integrating ideas from sources outside the supply chain are still underdeveloped. The authors show which current knowledge boundaries pose obstacles for open innovation initiatives in this industry, and how they could be mediated through the involvement of gatekeepers. Originality/value The authors challenge and clarify the notion of the “permeability of organizational boundaries” in the open innovation literature and investigate the role of gatekeepers for open innovation.

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Section: Open Innovation In the Automotive Industrymentioning

confidence: 99%

Managing knowledge boundaries for open innovation – lessons from the automotive industry

Wilhelm

Dolfsma

2018

IJOPM

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“…De Massis et al, 2012;Lazzarotti et al, 2013), the industry as a whole remains conservative. An early study by Ili et al (2010) examines OI and demonstrates that the car industry displays all the relevant properties suggesting that the OI model would be appropriate, i.e.…”

Section: Open Innovation In the Car Industrymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Stating that there are few studies about the topic, Lazzarotti et al (2013) explore whether, why and how OI is adopted in the automotive field. Based on three case studies, the authors agree with Ili et al (2010) in confirming the automotive industry as 'being trapped by cost and innovation pressure by customers' (Lazzarotti et al, 2013:53).…”

Section: Open Innovation In the Car Industrymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Networking innovation in the European car industry: Does the Open Innovation model fit?

Dodourova

Bevis

2014

Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice

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“…Furthermore, papers specifically focusing on open innovation in the car industry by Mondragon (2006), Ili et al (2010), MacNeill and Bailey (2010), De Massis et al 2012, Kamp and Bevis (2012), Karlsson and Sköld (2013) and Lazzarotti et al (2013) addressed the relative lack of open innovation in the automotive industry. However, they also emphasised the need for open innovation as an R&D strategy to be adopted by car manufacturers in the near future.…”

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Closed-open innovation strategy for autonomous vehicle development

Bossink

Blankesteijn

Jong

2019

IJATM

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The automobile industry is faced with societal and market pressures to develop radically innovative cars for the future. The development of the autonomous vehicle (AV) is a strategic innovation in this area. This paper studies whether and how AV-innovation strategies at Tesla, BMW and Toyota are developed by using an open and/or closed innovation paradigm. More than ever, it appears that R&D departments of car manufacturers employ a combination of a closed and an open innovation strategy. In order to nurture their AV innovation strategy, they strategically decide which innovations to adopt from outside, and which parts of the R&D process to keep in-house. This paper presents and discusses the combined closed-open AV-innovation strategies used by three dominant car producers. It provides an insight in how they aim to gain a first-to-market position and sustainable competitive advantage in a new market segment of a highly saturated market.

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Open Innovation in the automotive industry: Why and How? Evidence from a multiple case study

Cited by 28 publications

References 14 publications

Managing knowledge boundaries for open innovation – lessons from the automotive industry

Managing knowledge boundaries for open innovation – lessons from the automotive industry

Networking innovation in the European car industry: Does the Open Innovation model fit?

Closed-open innovation strategy for autonomous vehicle development

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