Breaking Internal Silos with Inside-In Open Innovation

Agnieszka Radziwon, Asta Pundziene, Tobias Gutmann and Sea Matilda Bez ()
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Sea Matilda Bez: Labex Entreprendre - UM - Université de Montpellier, MRM - Montpellier Research in Management - UM1 - Université Montpellier 1 - UPVM - Université Paul-Valéry - Montpellier 3 - UM2 - Université Montpellier 2 - Sciences et Techniques - UPVD - Université de Perpignan Via Domitia - Groupe Sup de Co Montpellier (GSCM) - Montpellier Business School

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Abstract: Platforms have become such a pervasive innovation strategy for incumbents that they are renamed incumbent-born platforms. Despite being incumbent-born the knowledge flowing between the incumbent and the platform is not friction-free. Previous open innovation studies of incumbent-born platforms focused on knowledge flows across the external boundaries (outside-in and inside-out open innovation). To complement this, view our qualitative case study focuses on inside-in open innovation, i.e., knowledge flows within the organization – incumbent business units and the incumbent-born platform. The incumbent and platform are part of a large German manufacturing company in the MedTech industry. Drawing on the friction-based view, we investigate how knowledge frictions impede inside-in open innovation in incumbent-born MedTech platforms. Our findings point out a range of knowledge transfer frictions, which may hinder open innovation efforts.

Keywords: Multi-sided platforms; Open Innovation; Frictions; MedTech; case study (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022-11-08
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Published in World Open Innovation Conférence, Nov 2022, Eindhoven, Netherlands

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