A Study of Specific Open Innovation Issues from Perspectives of Open Source and Resources—The Series Cases of Tesla

Jianan Wang, Yuzhen Duan and Guijian Liu
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Jianan Wang: Research Center for Science and Technology Innovation and Regional Development, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China
Yuzhen Duan: College of Economics and Management, Anhui Open University, Hefei 230022, China
Guijian Liu: School of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 14, issue 1, 1-24

Abstract: It is difficult for enterprises to adapt to the rapidly developing market demand and increasingly intense competition by relying only on internal resources to carry out innovation activities. We identify three new issues for the Cross-Functional Consortium Families (CFCFs, CF 2 s) open innovation model based on a cooperating network: participation of large-scale high-tech enterprises (LHEs), impact from open source, and motivation of keeping resource independence. By studying the series cases of Tesla, Inc. (Austin, TX, USA) cooperating with small and medium enterprises (SMEs) through an open source CF 2 model, we examined and discussed these three issues and gave new connotations to both open innovation and the CF 2 model from perspectives of open source and resources. This paper also provides strategic reference for other LHEs to mitigate the dependency on key resources and generate new key resources accepted by the environment.

Keywords: open innovation; cross-functional consortium family; open source; resource dependence; electric vehicles (pure electric vehicles); small and medium enterprises (SMEs); case study (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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