The purchasing innovation function, an interface player in open innovation

L’achat-innovation, un acteur d’interface d’Open Innovation

Sihem Ben Mahmoud-Jouini (), Romaric Servajean-Hilst (), Agathe Gilain () and Anne Dumas
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Sihem Ben Mahmoud-Jouini: GREGH - Groupement de Recherche et d'Etudes en Gestion à HEC - HEC Paris - Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Romaric Servajean-Hilst: CRG I3 - Centre de recherche en gestion i3 - X - École polytechnique - IP Paris - Institut Polytechnique de Paris - Université Paris-Saclay - I3 - Institut interdisciplinaire de l’innovation - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Kedge BS - Kedge Business School
Agathe Gilain: CGS i3 - Centre de Gestion Scientifique i3 - Mines Paris - PSL (École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris) - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres - I3 - Institut interdisciplinaire de l’innovation - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Anne Dumas: HEC Paris - Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales, X - École polytechnique - IP Paris - Institut Polytechnique de Paris

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Abstract: The benefits of Open Innovation, and specifically of innovation coming from suppliers, are widely emphasized by literature. In parallel, the difficulties of implementing such approaches are also underlined, and the necessity of creating new roles is emphasized for managing the interface and intermediation between internal functions and external innovation suppliers. Based on interviews conducted in two industrial firms, we show the emergence of a new practice supported by players at the interface between purchasing and innovation: the innovation-purchasers. We also show how they build this new role, in interface with Purchasing and R & D functions, that is critical in the implementation of open innovation by firms.

Keywords: Open Innovation; Purchasing; Sourcing; Innovation purchasing; Achats-Innovation; Achat (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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Published in Revue Française de Gestion, 2019, Sciences, techniques et pratiques de gestion, 45 (282), pp.113-130. ⟨10.3166/rfg.2019.00353⟩

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DOI: 10.3166/rfg.2019.00353

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