CONTEXTUAL EFFECTS IN OPEN INNOVATION: A MULTI-COUNTRY COMPARISON

Anna Arbussã () and Josep Llach
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Anna Arbussã: Department of Business Adminstration and Product Design, University of Girona, Campus Montilivi, 10071 Girona, Spain
Josep Llach: Department of Business Adminstration and Product Design, University of Girona, Campus Montilivi, 10071 Girona, Spain

International Journal of Innovation Management (ijim), 2018, vol. 22, issue 02, 1-23

Abstract: This paper contributes to the understanding of the context dependency of open innovation. It does so by empirically analysing the relationship between innovation activities, firm characteristics and the degree of innovation openness of manufacturing companies in three European countries with varying degrees of technological development. Logistic regression analysis is used to study CIS data from Germany, Portugal and Bulgaria. In line with the contingency approach to open innovation, the results suggest that the appropriate open innovation strategy is context dependent, with similar practices and firm characteristics obtaining opposite relationship signs in different countries. Hence, it is important to take country idiosyncrasies into account when designing policies to promote open innovation.

Keywords: Open innovation; CIS; Context; country; product; process; European countries (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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