UNFOLDING FIFTY SHADES OF OPEN INNOVATION: STIMULATING INSIGHTS & FORESIGHTS

Anne-Laure Mention and Marko Torkkeli

Chapter 1 in Open Innovation: A Multifaceted Perspective:(In 2 Parts), 2016, pp 1-18 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: Since the concept of Open Innovation was coined by Henry Chesbrough in 2003, it has increasingly gained popularity in academic research and attracted interest of practitioners and policymakers alike. A recent search (December 2014) performed in Scopus revealed a mere 5 hits in 2003, a more significant 161 hits in 2009 and over 300 hits in 2013, considering exclusively journals, conference papers, reviews and editorials listed in this internationally recognised database of peer-reviewed literature. From the business perspective, according to Google search, looking for “Open Innovation” in April 2003 returned about 200 hits, while performing the same search 10 years later provided over 450 million links. It is obvious that Open Innovation became a paradigm which has attracted attention not only among academics, but also business entities and beyond. More and more people handing out their business cards show titles related to open innovation, like chief open innovation officer, open innovation specialist, head of open innovation to name a few. Job offerings website Monster.com search with the skill “Open Innovation” produced from tens to hundreds of job ads depending on your country of interest (conducted in March 2015). The debate about being open or not has reached new arenas and disciplines. For example, open data is booming where data owners (often public bodies) are wondering how much and under which conditions they can open-up databases and files. At the same time, the business world is eagerly looking for new opportunities to grow via open data which usually creates more jobs, desperately hunted by governments…

Keywords: Open Innovation; Innovation Management; Innovation Economics; Crowdsourcing; Living Labs; Ecosystems; Skills and Competencies; Quadruple Helex Model; Communities of Practice; Strategy; Open Data; Multidisciplinary (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.worldscientific.com/doi/pdf/10.1142/9789814719186_0001 (application/pdf)
https://www.worldscientific.com/doi/abs/10.1142/9789814719186_0001 (text/html)
Ebook Access is available upon purchase.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:wsi:wschap:9789814719186_0001

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in World Scientific Book Chapters from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Tai Tone Lim ().