A Framework for Cross-Industry Innovation: Transferring Technologies between Industries

Alina Behne, Jan Heinrich Beinke () and Frank Teuteberg ()
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Alina Behne: Accounting and Information Systems, Osnabrück University, Katharinenstr. 1, Osnabrück 49074, Germany
Jan Heinrich Beinke: Smart Enterprise Engineering, Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz GmbH (DFKI), Parkstr. 40, Osnabrück 49080, Germany
Frank Teuteberg: Accounting and Information Systems, Osnabrück University, Katharinenstr. 1, Osnabrück 49074, Germany

International Journal of Innovation and Technology Management (IJITM), 2021, vol. 18, issue 03, 1-27

Abstract: Cross-industry innovation (CII) aims to reuse existing solutions by leveraging the innovative power of partners’ knowledge from another industry. CII is a key concept for identifying and adapting potential (disruptive) innovations and technologies and gains importance in recent years. To enable CII in companies, we examine the topic holistically. First, we summarize the existing literature, including frameworks of CII. Second, we conduct expert interviews in order to consider also the practical perspective. We then consolidate the results into a framework with a structured procedure and detailed methods, which can be used by companies. Our contribution has several implications for practice and research. For practice, we derive five recommendations for actions for companies that already use or plan to use CII. For the scientific community, we summarize the state of research on CII and present our framework, which can serve as a starting point for further research.

Keywords: Cross-industry innovation; framework; technology transfer; innovation management (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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