A Framework for Risk Assessment in Collaborative Networks to Promote Sustainable Systems in Innovation Ecosystems

Ricardo Santos, António Abreu, Ana Dias, João M.F. Calado, Vitor Anes and José Soares
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Ricardo Santos: Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa (ISEL), Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa, 1959-007 Lisboa, Portugal
António Abreu: Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa (ISEL), Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa, 1959-007 Lisboa, Portugal
Ana Dias: Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa (ISEL), Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa, 1959-007 Lisboa, Portugal
João M.F. Calado: Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa (ISEL), Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa, 1959-007 Lisboa, Portugal
Vitor Anes: Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa (ISEL), Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa, 1959-007 Lisboa, Portugal
José Soares: ADVANCE-Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão (ISEG), Universidade de Lisboa, 1200-109 Lisboa, Portugal

Sustainability, 2020, vol. 12, issue 15, 1-20

Abstract: Nowadays—and due to an increasingly competitive world—organizations need to collaborate in an open innovation context to be efficient and effective by achieving high levels of innovation with their products and services. However, the existing resources—as well as the innovation achieved from the diversity of partners involved—brings challenges to the management; in particularly with risk management. To fulfill such needs, risk management frameworks have been created to support managers, on preventing threats with systems development, although without properly account the influence of each system component, on the entire system, as well as the subjectivity within human perception. To account for these issues, a framework supported by fuzzy logic is presented in this work, to evaluate the risk level on system development in open innovation environment. The approach robustness is assessed by using a case study, where the challenges and benefits found are discussed.

Keywords: collaborative networks; virtual enterprise; open innovation; risk management; fuzzy logic; systems engineering (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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