Shifting from co-development to co-innovation

Shades of the Innovation-Purchasing Function — The Missing Link of Open Innovation

“…In some cases, that role of "advanced buyer" can be split into two separate entities, as occurs in the fuzzy-front-end of innovation or as part of an NPD project (T. Johnsen et al, 2011;Schiele, 2010). This need for specific organizations and activities to manage fuzzy-front-end vs. latter stages of development is well known in NPD literature (Brentani & Reid, 2012;Maniak & Midler, 2008). It is also identified in EPI literature (Ben Mahmoud-Jouini & Charue-Duboc, 2014; T. E. Johnsen & Mikkelsen, 2015;Luzzini & Ronchi, 2010;Rehm, Schupp, & Matthyssens, 2015), where a distinction might be found between explorative and exploitative innovation (Blome et al, 2013).…”

“…As the EPI literature is intimately linked to the ESI literature, its focus relies mainly on Purchasing involvement in NPD rather than in fuzzy-front-ends of projects, where the innovation is not yet formally defined. Now, the stakes and logics related to fuzzy-front-end innovation are traditionally managed separately from those related to new product development: there are different roles and activities completed through different interacting functions (Maniak & Midler, 2008). For these authors, in a co-development process, the buying function must deal mainly with wellknown suppliers in the project time-scheduling and with a clear vision of the shared responsibilities between client and partner.…”

Generating transformative agency among horticultural producers: An activity-theoretical approach to transforming Integrated Pest Management

“…(Wijnands et al, 2014). Co-innovation denotes reconfiguration of relational, institutional and organizational patterns and arrangements, learning processes, and information flows among stakeholders working towards a common purpose (Klerkx and Nettle, 2013;Maniak and Midler, 2008) with the direct involvement of farmers in all stages of the innovation process to ensure relevance, applicability and adoption (Dogliotti et al, 2013;Peshin and Dhawan, 2009).…”

Crossing innovation and product projects management: A comparative analysis in the automotive industry

“…The key analytical concept of our research is the innovation life-cycle (ILC) or what we called innovation route in our preliminary studies [21]. We define this concept as the set of investigations aimed at exploring different innovative features, preparing them for the application to specific contexts, and capitalizing the related knowledge within the core product-process organization.…”