Fast-connecting search practices: On the role of open innovation intermediary to accelerate the absorptive capacity

Olga Kokshagina, Pascal Le Masson and Florent Bories

Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2017, vol. 120, issue C, 232-239

Abstract: Firms that engage in distant search activities seek to leverage on external knowledge to innovate. The firms' ability to acquire new knowledge depends on strong search practices and the corresponding absorptive capacity where the latter predefine firms' ability to span out of its core competences area, to follow the open innovation processes. Absorptive capacity is often seen as a precondition for the open innovation success. This research focuses on the cases of open innovation when the absorptive capacity is absent internally and is taken in charge by an open innovation intermediary that is capable to develop the potential absorptive capacity for the firm.

Keywords: Search; Absorptive capacity; Intermediary platform; Learning; Open innovation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2017.02.009

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