Understanding a firm's openness decisions in innovation

Innovation in public services: The case of Spanish local government

“…The similarities between Collaborative Innovation and Open Innovation are apparent (Chesbrough, 2003;Drechsler and Natter, 2012;Mueller, 1962;Von Hippel, 1988), as they are both concepts showing that the sources for innovation are no longer largely internal in an organization, but have spread to many loci in the outside environment.…”

University spin-off firms’ struggle with openness in early knowledge relationships: in search of antecedents and outcomes

“…In a similar vein, patent-protected innovation and patent effectiveness are found to be important in existing literature, e.g. in Drechsler and Natter (2012) and Laursen and Salter (2014). Furthermore, owning patents increases visibility and legitimacy, and it improves attractiveness of the firm to other learning partners (Riccobono, Bruccoleri, and Perrone 2015).…”

“…Diversity in knowledge relationships is seen as crucially important to university spin-offs, especially when the knowledge originates outside their own technical domain and generates complementarities, for instance, application knowledge and knowledge on access to funding and launching customers (Colombo and Grilli 2010;Drechsler and Natter 2012). Getting knowledge through different partners also provides a broader ability of sensing opportunities that enables a larger variety in strategy formulation and adaptation (Teece 2007), although too much diversity may not work beneficially due to lack of management ability (e.g.…”

“…Xia 2013;Bigliardi and Galati 2016;Calof, Meissner, and Razheva 2017;Hochleitner, Arbussà, and Coenders 2017). Some studies have placed an emphasis on external factors that influence openness, like market turbulence (Chesbrough 2007) while other studies argue that the internal resources situation is more important (Barge-Gil 2010; Bigliardi and Galati 2016) or suggest a combination of internal and external factors (Drechsler and Natter 2012;Riccobono, Bruccoleri, and Perrone 2015).…”

Impact of External Knowledge Acquisition Strategies on Innovation – A Comparative Study Based on Dutch and Swiss Panel Data

“…Informed by the growing literature on open innovation (Chesbrough, 2003;Dahlander and Gann, 2010;Drechsler, and Natter, 2012;Fey and Birkinshaw, 2005), we expected that the more firms rely on different external knowledge sourcing modes, the better they would perform in terms of innovation. While we find some evidence that both external technology sourcing and R&D cooperation positively impact innovation in isolation, we hardly find evidence of an additional gain in performance when both are used simultaneously.…”