Open Innovation and Open Strategy: Epistemic and Design Dimensions

doi:10.1017/9781108347921.004

Chapter 3 - Open Innovation and Open Strategy: Epistemic and Design Dimensions

from Part I - The Concept of Open Strategy

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 July 2019

Georg von Krogh and

Edited by

Georg von Krogh and

David Seidl: Affiliation:
Universität Zürich
Georg von Krogh: Affiliation:
Swiss Federal University (ETH), Zürich
Richard Whittington: Affiliation:
Saïd Business School, University of Oxford

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The past decade has seen a multiplication of theory and research on Open Innovation as a set of practices by which firms bring novel ideas to the market (Chesbrough, 2003; Gassmann et al., 2010). In the early stage of the work on Open Innovation, research was primarily driven by a focus on practical approaches and critically important insights into how firms went about exchanging knowledge and ideas with the outside world. Lately, however, studies of Open Innovation have benefited greatly from building on the knowledge-based theory of the firm (Cohen & Levinthal, 1990; Kogut & Zander, 1992; Nonaka et al., 2006), which draws attention to the sources of innovation-relevant knowledge and the designs of mechanisms to tap and replenish such sources.

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