This document discusses coupled open innovation processes, where companies cooperate and share knowledge to jointly develop innovations. It provides examples of how coupled processes are implemented in the ICT sector. Specifically, it discusses Ericsson's use of coupled processes through strategic alliances and platforms like Ericsson Labs that allow it to combine internal and external ideas. Ericsson participates in standardization initiatives like 3GPP that involve over 300 companies cooperating to develop telecom industry standards through a coupled innovation process. The document analyzes the benefits of coupled processes for value creation and competitive advantage, as well as challenges around intellectual property protection and balancing openness between companies and customers.
Collaboration between universities and industry NZ and Australialorraine skelton
Knowledge nations are keeping knowledge to themselves.
A report by Deloitte 2018 shows that less than 5% of industry forms collaborations with universities in NZ and only 3% in Australia, which puts us a long way behind other developed countries.
To “innovate for sustainability” we need to go beyond process, product, and organizational innovation into strategic (business model) innovation and normative value innovation. Value innovation builds on the introduction of new normative orientations into an existing business ecosystem. Our work delineates a new theoretical approach that is illustrated with case studies on different modes of sustainability innovation. We exemplify the approach through a case study of a stakeholder dialogue to establish a sustainable energy region in northern Germany and contrast this case against examples of innovation for sustainability on strategic and instrumental management levels.
This PDF details the things that make a company drive innovation by listing the nature and necessary ingredients on innovation for a capital rich to an entrepreneurial setup.
An attempt to form a general overview of virtual organisations, innovation and its requirements within a business context, leading to the presentation of a candidate method for vBusiness Operations.
Presentation of Dr. Ioannis Kopanakis in Conference: "Press the innovation button: the role of Research and innovation in entrepreneurship".
Presentation template: www.PresentationLoad.com
Collaboration between universities and industry NZ and Australialorraine skelton
Knowledge nations are keeping knowledge to themselves.
A report by Deloitte 2018 shows that less than 5% of industry forms collaborations with universities in NZ and only 3% in Australia, which puts us a long way behind other developed countries.
To “innovate for sustainability” we need to go beyond process, product, and organizational innovation into strategic (business model) innovation and normative value innovation. Value innovation builds on the introduction of new normative orientations into an existing business ecosystem. Our work delineates a new theoretical approach that is illustrated with case studies on different modes of sustainability innovation. We exemplify the approach through a case study of a stakeholder dialogue to establish a sustainable energy region in northern Germany and contrast this case against examples of innovation for sustainability on strategic and instrumental management levels.
This PDF details the things that make a company drive innovation by listing the nature and necessary ingredients on innovation for a capital rich to an entrepreneurial setup.
An attempt to form a general overview of virtual organisations, innovation and its requirements within a business context, leading to the presentation of a candidate method for vBusiness Operations.
Presentation of Dr. Ioannis Kopanakis in Conference: "Press the innovation button: the role of Research and innovation in entrepreneurship".
Presentation template: www.PresentationLoad.com
Big Data in Data-driven innovation: the impact in enterprises’ performancee-Bi Lab
Ioannis Kopanakis, Konstantinos Vassakis & George Mastorakis. "Big Data in Data-driven innovation: the impact in enterprises’ performance". Presentation at 11th Annual MIBES International Conference, 22nd of June - 24th of June 2016, Heraklion, Crete, Greece.
Presentation template: www.PresentationLoad.com
Seine neuesten Arbeiten und Erkenntnisse zur Innovationsforschung hat Prof. Dr. Henning Breuer auf der diesjährigen ISPIM-Konferenz in Dublin vorgestellt. Auf dieser Konferenz diskutieren die weltweit in Innovationsthemen führenden Universitäten und Großunternehmen ihre jüngsten Erkenntnisse und stellen sich den anstehenden Herausforderungen der Zukunft.
Denn die im Innovationsmanagement etablierten Methoden zu Wertschöpfungsnetzwerken stoßen zunehmend an Grenzen. Vertrackte Probleme - wie die Schwierigkeit, die regionale Energiewirtschaft nachhaltig neu zu gestalten - verlangen nach neuen Lösungsansätzen. Prof. Dr. Breuer geht in seinem Forschungsansatz über die etablierten Methoden zur Innovation in Produkten, Diensten und Geschäftsmodellen hinaus und wagt sich in eine neue Welt wertbasierter und nachhaltigkeitsorientierter Innovationen vor.
"SMEs in data-driven era: the role of data to firm performance" e-Bi Lab
Ioannis Kopanakis, Konstantinos Vassakis & George Mastorakis. "Big Data in Data-driven innovation: the impact in enterprises’ performance". Presentation at 9th Annual EUROMED ACADEMY OF BUSINESS (ΕΜΑΒ) CONFERENCE
"Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Digital Ecosystems", 14-16 September 2016, Warsaw, Poland.
Big Data in Data-driven innovation: applications, prospects and limitations ...e-Bi Lab
Ioannis Kopanakis, Konstantinos Vassakis & George Mastorakis. "Big Data in Data-driven innovation: Applications, Prospects and Limitations in Marketing".
Presentation at 4th International Conference on Contemporary Marketing Issues, 22-24 June 2016, Heraklion, Greece.
Presentation template: www.PresentationLoad.com
A discussion 'think piece' presented by Professor Lynn Martin at an innovation workshop hosted by the West Midlands Regional Observatory in Birmingham on 19 March 2009.
José Molero/José María Insense-La empresa y las políticas de innovación trans...Fundación Ramón Areces
El 25 de abril de 2017 organizamos en la Fundación Ramón Areces una mesa redonda sobre 'La empresa y las políticas de innovación transformadoras'. En este foro participaron, entre otros, Totti Konnola, CEO de Insight Foresight Institute; Luis Fernando Álvarez-Gascón Pérez, Director General GMV secure eSolutions; y Francisco Marín, Director General del CDTI. Esta actividad se celebró en colaboración con el Grupo de Investigación en Economía y Política de la Innovación de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid (GRINEI-UCM) y el Foro de Empresas Innovadoras (FEI).
An Analytic Network Process Modeling to Assess Technological Innovation Capab...drboon
To handle swift changes in global environment, Technological Innovation Capabilities (TICs) is one crucial and unique strategy to increase firms’ competitiveness. This research proposed a systematic framework of TICs assessment by employing Analytic Network Process (ANP) method for solving the complicate decision-making and assessing the interrelationship among various evaluation factors, whereas the relative important weight data were provided by industrial experts based on pair-wise comparison. With the novel TIC assessment model, high-level managers could easily gain management information to rationalizes the decision-making process based on the most important criteria which affect the firms’ competitive advantages and the highest priority factors which were needed to be handled. The last section also displayed the application of TICs assessment on three Thai automotive parts firms, as case study.
Exploring the use of signals in the venture emergence of new technology-based...University of Stuttgart
Presentation at 20th ICE Conference – IEEE TMC Europe Conference 23-25 June 2014, Bergamo, Italy.
Abstract: New technology-based firms have to deal with the
technology development and market search challenges at the same time. The venture emergence in technology entrepreneurship symbolizes that the new venture has been able to find the right fit for its technology and becomes an operating business. The complex nature and dynamism of technology markets suggest the need to look beyond the venture resources in order to explain how new ventures overcomes the market uncertainty towards their technological products, and become operational businesses. We use a multiple case study of three new technology-based firms to explore the use of signals as market creation strategies in the context of venture emergence. The results suggest that entrepreneurs rely on market, technology and social capital signaling to reduce the uncertainty and advance towards venture emergence. This research holds implications for researchers interested in further exploring the integration of marketing, signaling and entrepreneurship theories and for entrepreneurs interested in overcoming the market uncertainty towards their technology, products and venture performance.
OECD workshop on measuring the link between public procurement, R&D and innov...STIEAS
OECD workshop on measuring the link between public procurement, R&D and innovation. "Linking EU Procurement and CIS Data: Results from Germany", presentation by Christian Rammer
Open innovation has been fundamental to major technological breakthroughs of current times. The Networked Society – in which everyone and everything are connected in real time – will change the way we innovate and collaborate, and is a key enabler of open innovation.
Big Data in Data-driven innovation: the impact in enterprises’ performancee-Bi Lab
Ioannis Kopanakis, Konstantinos Vassakis & George Mastorakis. "Big Data in Data-driven innovation: the impact in enterprises’ performance". Presentation at 11th Annual MIBES International Conference, 22nd of June - 24th of June 2016, Heraklion, Crete, Greece.
Presentation template: www.PresentationLoad.com
Seine neuesten Arbeiten und Erkenntnisse zur Innovationsforschung hat Prof. Dr. Henning Breuer auf der diesjährigen ISPIM-Konferenz in Dublin vorgestellt. Auf dieser Konferenz diskutieren die weltweit in Innovationsthemen führenden Universitäten und Großunternehmen ihre jüngsten Erkenntnisse und stellen sich den anstehenden Herausforderungen der Zukunft.
Denn die im Innovationsmanagement etablierten Methoden zu Wertschöpfungsnetzwerken stoßen zunehmend an Grenzen. Vertrackte Probleme - wie die Schwierigkeit, die regionale Energiewirtschaft nachhaltig neu zu gestalten - verlangen nach neuen Lösungsansätzen. Prof. Dr. Breuer geht in seinem Forschungsansatz über die etablierten Methoden zur Innovation in Produkten, Diensten und Geschäftsmodellen hinaus und wagt sich in eine neue Welt wertbasierter und nachhaltigkeitsorientierter Innovationen vor.
"SMEs in data-driven era: the role of data to firm performance" e-Bi Lab
Ioannis Kopanakis, Konstantinos Vassakis & George Mastorakis. "Big Data in Data-driven innovation: the impact in enterprises’ performance". Presentation at 9th Annual EUROMED ACADEMY OF BUSINESS (ΕΜΑΒ) CONFERENCE
"Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Digital Ecosystems", 14-16 September 2016, Warsaw, Poland.
Big Data in Data-driven innovation: applications, prospects and limitations ...e-Bi Lab
Ioannis Kopanakis, Konstantinos Vassakis & George Mastorakis. "Big Data in Data-driven innovation: Applications, Prospects and Limitations in Marketing".
Presentation at 4th International Conference on Contemporary Marketing Issues, 22-24 June 2016, Heraklion, Greece.
Presentation template: www.PresentationLoad.com
A discussion 'think piece' presented by Professor Lynn Martin at an innovation workshop hosted by the West Midlands Regional Observatory in Birmingham on 19 March 2009.
José Molero/José María Insense-La empresa y las políticas de innovación trans...Fundación Ramón Areces
El 25 de abril de 2017 organizamos en la Fundación Ramón Areces una mesa redonda sobre 'La empresa y las políticas de innovación transformadoras'. En este foro participaron, entre otros, Totti Konnola, CEO de Insight Foresight Institute; Luis Fernando Álvarez-Gascón Pérez, Director General GMV secure eSolutions; y Francisco Marín, Director General del CDTI. Esta actividad se celebró en colaboración con el Grupo de Investigación en Economía y Política de la Innovación de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid (GRINEI-UCM) y el Foro de Empresas Innovadoras (FEI).
An Analytic Network Process Modeling to Assess Technological Innovation Capab...drboon
To handle swift changes in global environment, Technological Innovation Capabilities (TICs) is one crucial and unique strategy to increase firms’ competitiveness. This research proposed a systematic framework of TICs assessment by employing Analytic Network Process (ANP) method for solving the complicate decision-making and assessing the interrelationship among various evaluation factors, whereas the relative important weight data were provided by industrial experts based on pair-wise comparison. With the novel TIC assessment model, high-level managers could easily gain management information to rationalizes the decision-making process based on the most important criteria which affect the firms’ competitive advantages and the highest priority factors which were needed to be handled. The last section also displayed the application of TICs assessment on three Thai automotive parts firms, as case study.
Exploring the use of signals in the venture emergence of new technology-based...University of Stuttgart
Presentation at 20th ICE Conference – IEEE TMC Europe Conference 23-25 June 2014, Bergamo, Italy.
Abstract: New technology-based firms have to deal with the
technology development and market search challenges at the same time. The venture emergence in technology entrepreneurship symbolizes that the new venture has been able to find the right fit for its technology and becomes an operating business. The complex nature and dynamism of technology markets suggest the need to look beyond the venture resources in order to explain how new ventures overcomes the market uncertainty towards their technological products, and become operational businesses. We use a multiple case study of three new technology-based firms to explore the use of signals as market creation strategies in the context of venture emergence. The results suggest that entrepreneurs rely on market, technology and social capital signaling to reduce the uncertainty and advance towards venture emergence. This research holds implications for researchers interested in further exploring the integration of marketing, signaling and entrepreneurship theories and for entrepreneurs interested in overcoming the market uncertainty towards their technology, products and venture performance.
OECD workshop on measuring the link between public procurement, R&D and innov...STIEAS
OECD workshop on measuring the link between public procurement, R&D and innovation. "Linking EU Procurement and CIS Data: Results from Germany", presentation by Christian Rammer
Open innovation has been fundamental to major technological breakthroughs of current times. The Networked Society – in which everyone and everything are connected in real time – will change the way we innovate and collaborate, and is a key enabler of open innovation.
This Working Paper was published by United Nations University Maastricht Economic and social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT). It seeks to provide insights about the main characteristics of innovative firms and to gather new evidence with regard to the nature of the innovation process in the Latin American and Caribbean region. This Paper analyses data from a number of CARICOM countries.
Paper I produced for the SIIT 2011. Published in the conference proceedings and available on the IEEE website: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6083609&tag=1
Innovation journey study final report - october 2013 - summaryAlastair Ross
Summary of study into innovation approaches of technology based businesses in the UK and Denmark by Codexx, University of Exeter and the University of Aalborg.
Discussion Dynamics of Cooperation and CompetitionBeing successfuLyndonPelletier761
Discussion: Dynamics of Cooperation and Competition
Being successful in today’s business environment requires more nuanced thinking than just stressing competition. Consider General Electric, which found that a highly effective way to improve its KPIs in the aircraft engine market was to actually partner with a competitor. It seems counter-intuitive, but it worked. When General Electric and Snecma created an alliance to build aircraft engines, General Electric shielded certain sections of the production process to protect against the excess transfer of technology (“Snecma, GE Renew CFM Agreement,” 2008).
Consider the dynamics of cooperation and competition in the future business environment. For organizations that are in an environment of increasing cooperation/competition, consider the proactive role the HR department can serve in helping the C-suite think about balancing competition and cooperation. As part of the Discussion, give specific examples.
To prepare for this Discussion,
Review this week’s Learning Resources, especially:
· Resource fit in inter‐firm– See pdf
· Interpretive schemes – See pdf
· Knowledge transfer to partners – See pdf
· Two Favors of Open Innovation - See pdf
Assignment:
Post a cohesive and scholarly response based on your readings and research this week that addresses the following:
Tommy McMillian request letters from you that can show the parole board that he has a support system waiting outside.
Conduct additional research to analyze the dynamics of cooperation and competition in future business environments.
· From your research, discuss specific ideas or concepts regarding what proactive role can the HR department serve in helping the C-suite think about balancing competition and cooperation?
· Does cooperation/competition require equal resources from all partners?
· How are the decisions made about the levels of resources committed by each partner?
· If there is a wide disparity in net worth or market share of the partners, is it reasonable to expect each to commit the same percentage of resources?
· How are conflicts around cooperation and competition anticipated, planned for, and resolved by the HR department?
· No Plagiarism
· APA citing
FROM THE EDITOR
James A. Euchner
TWO FLAVORS OF OPFNINN01MFI0N
Since Henry Chesbrough published Open Innovation
(2003), the paradigm he described has been a subject of
great interest and experimentation in corporations. Ches-
brough defined open innovation as breaking down the
boundaries of the corporation so that "valuable ideas can
come from inside or outside the company and can go to
market from inside or outside the company, as well." He
contrasted this open paradigm with the more-traditional
closed innovation paradigm based on the captive R&D
laboratory.
Chesbrough's work encouraged companies to create
porous innovation pipelines and to become more aggres-
sive about licensing, working with start-up companies,
spinning out concepts that don't fit wi ...
How Innovation and Technology Will Fuel the Transition to Sustainable Enterpr...EricCuka
This report has been created to provide insight as to why businesses should adopt sustainability practices into their core business strategies. Innovation and technology have not only created increased pressure and transparency, they have also created enormous opportunity for businesses in today's high-demand economy. There are incredible examples covered in the included research which demonstrate how organizations have utilized eco-efficiencies to increase margins while simultaneously benefiting both core and fringe stakeholders. The key concept of this paper is to encourage companies to embrace sustainability into their corporate culture in order to fuel innovation and create competitive advantages. Technology can be leveraged in a wide array of possibilities to maximize operational efficiencies, increase margins, and impact society at the same time. The research conducted to support the main argument of this report includes readings from Saint Cloud State University's MBA 605 - Strategies for Sustainable Development class, as well as multiple external readings from credible internet sources.
Anyone who is employed in a technology field will find this report especially interesting; however, the content is relevant to multiple areas of business and business strategy. Whether you are passionate about sustainability or not, the research in this paper will apply to you if you are interested in maximizing operational efficiencies through innovation and technology. The key eco-efficiencies covered include: reduced material and waste expenses, reduced energy expenses, and reduced water expenses. As companies embrace technology, combined with a sustainable strategy, additional innovations will be constructed as these companies strive towards becoming sustainable. The bottom line is that technology and innovation will fuel the transition to sustainable enterprises. Is your company going to be left behind?
Kornelia Konrad-La empresa y las políticas de innovación transformadorasFundación Ramón Areces
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La innovación abierta (Open Innovation), término acuñado por el Profesor Henry Chesbrough, es una nueva estrategia de innovación bajo la cual las empresas van más allá de los límites internos de su organización y en particular donde la cooperación con profesionales externos pasa a tener un papel fundamental. Open Innovation significa combinar el conocimiento interno con el conocimiento externo para sacar adelante los proyectos de estrategia y de I+D. Significa también que las empresas utilizan tanto canales internos como externos para poner en el mercado sus productos y tecnologías innovadoras. Bajo este contexto, universidades y centros de investigación ofrecen nuevas perspectivas y soluciones a las compañías que utilizan este modelo. Este tipo de innovación responde a la posibilidad de ocurrencia de lo que se conoce como inteligencia colectiva.
Effects of the External (Macro) And Internal (Micro) Source (Factors) of Inno...inventionjournals
In an attempt to use the resource-based theoretical approach, this article tried to empirically investigate the influence and impact of theinternal (micro) and external (macro) environmental factors of innovation performance using a sample of small and medium sized firms in the telecommunication cluster in Ghana with the main focus on examining variables such as customer inputs, the intensive role of R&D, cooperative networks, the uncertain environment and the complex environment of the firm. A sample of 31 SMEs in the telecommunication cluster was selected with 109 questionnaires administered. The results indicate that the macro environmental sources as cooperative network and customer inputs actually impact positively on the innovation performance of SMEs in the communication cluster in Ghana. However, firm size, network size and complex environment were shown to be negatively related to firm innovation performance.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
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UI automation Sample
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Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
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All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
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Download the full report from here:
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Research questions revolving around oi in ict industry.
1. Sarantis Pispilis
28/07/2013
Dissertation: Coupled process of Open Innovation
Strategy as a Value Creation Tool in the ICT sector.
Current state of the Art
The formulation of the so-called'open strategies', integrates the balance between value creation with the
need to capture value [Chesbrough and Appleyard, 2007]. As a result, the innovative firm has to find
the 'right degree of openness', shifting from the question "how do we create and protect innovation" to
the question "how can we find a way to generate value and capture the greatest possible amount of that
value, regardless of whether others take part in the value chain" [Stoyanov, 2008].
By developing 'open strategies' the innovative firm may use three types of processes, namely the
"outside-in" (inbound), the "inside-out" (outbound) and the "coupled" (bi-directional) innovation
processes [Gassmann and Enkel, 2004]. The latter, which consist the dissertation topic is a process that
by definition entails porous boundaries and is defined as "linking outside-in and inside-out by working
in alliances with complementary companies during which 'give and take' are crucial for success" .
Although the concept of 'coupled processes' is gaining an increasing importance in the innovation
process and it is widely recognized in the open innovation literature [West and Bogers, 2011], there is
little evidence [Clark et al. 2012; Livieratos et al., 2012; Grotnes, 2009] on how growth strategies based
on coupled processes are put into practice. Furthermore, they are neither deeply understood nor
properly outlined. In other words, there is relatively little evidence on how 'open strategies'
emphasizing on coupled processes are 'translated' into practice, leading thus to a lack of a relevant
analytical framework.
Developments in internet Technology and social networking technologies allow companies to interact
with numerous sources and predict an unprecedented level of richness. Companies are able to draw
their customers, suppliers or other partners in the heart of their product development through on line
idea management or community participation in product development (Chesbrough and Prencipe,
2008).The coupled process of open innovation, where according to Enkel et al.(2009) companies
cooperate to co-create innovative products or services, is a process that is very common in the ICT
industry. It is in the ICT industry nature to be open. Companies are willing to share their IP with their
competitors and common standards are formed that apply to all the companies in that industry.
2. Sarantis Pispilis
28/07/2013
Discussion in brief on tentative topics-research questions
Open innovation strongly focuses on peer production through communities (Lakkhani et al., 2008;
Reichwald and Piller, 2009), consumers, lead users, universities or research organizations and partners
from other industries. According to Enkel and Gassman study in 2008 the category of companies
especially within the electrical, electronic, IT, and other high-tech industries (ICT), the number of joint
R&D projects comprises almost 50% of all R&D projects within a company. When company size taken
into account, the coupled process is popular in companies of all sizes that have substantial resource
allocation. In addition the companies that apply coupled process could also be sub categorized in those
who used this process to make profit or not (Lee et al, 2010).
The table below displays the characteristics of coupled open innovation and the characteristics of the
companies that use coupled process.
Characteristics
Coupled process
standard setting (pre dominant design)
combining outside-in
and inside-out
processes
increasing returns
(mobile industry through
multiplying technology
integrating external
knowledge and
competencies and
externalizing own
knowledge
alliance with
complementary partners
complementary products
with critical interfaces
relational view of the
firm
SMEs clearly have taken up a more open approach towards innovation. An important question in this
respect is: what drives SMEs to open up the innovation process? According to Van de Vrande et al
(2009) survey on a database collected from 605 innovatve SMEs in the Netherlands, open questions
allowed respondents to reveal their motives why their company is moving in the direction of an open
innovation model. The results indicate that open innovation in SMEs is mainly motivated by market-
related targets. SMEs make use of several open innovation practices at the same time to serve
customers effectively or to open up new markets, with higher-order objectives to secure revenues and
to maintain growth.
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According to (Mortara and Minshall 2011), on how do MNCs implement Open innovation practices
from a sample of 43 cross-sector MNCs, in the majority of cases, examples of activities for both
inbound and outbound processes (coupled process) were observed.
The managerial and organizational barriers to open Innovation are very diverse, but the main barrier to
open Innovation in SMEs is related to the organizational and Cultural issues which arise when SMEs
start to interact and Collaborate with external partners. Within their limited resources, SMEs must find
ways to achieve production economies of scale, to market their products effectively, and to provide
satisfactory support services. Collaborating with other organisations is one method.
SMEs are flexible and more innovative in new areas, but can lack resources and capabilities. Large
firms may be less flexible but will tend to have stronger resources to develop inventions into products
or processes, and these resources act as complementary assets in attracting SMEs to collaborate with
them (Barney and Clark, 2007).
At the exploration stage, SMEs are most likely to use external partnerships so they can concentrate on
retaining high levels of internal competence in a limited number of technology areas (Narula, 2004),
though they show a preference for networking with public research institutes and universities because
of the fear of giving away their technology to competitors (Tidd and Trewhella, 1997). But at the
exploitation stage, SMEs attempt to create value by entering into supplier–customer relations with large
firms (Luukkonen, 2005), outsourcing agreements or strategic alliances with other SMEs.
While alliances with large firms have often benefited SMEs, they can also oblige SMEs to share their
technological competence with the large firms, leading to increased flexibility for the large firms, thus
negating a major comparative advantage of the SMEs. As a result, as SMEs gain opportunities to
collaborate with large firms, they lose opportunities to compete against them (Narula, 2002). SMEs
may also be required to produce a cheap product to meet the large firms’ lowest specifications, thus
delaying further innovation on the part of the SMEs.
All in all the mechanisms by which open innovation creates value have not been absolutely codified,
many research results have described the positive influence of strategic alliances on SMEs’
performance (Kogut et al., 1992; Lee, 2007) and innovativeness (Rothwell, 1991), confirming strategic
alliances (coupled process) as important avenues for SMEs seeking to profit from value networks.
It is very interesting to study what open innovation strategies each company promotes, what motives
are behind them, how those strategies are chosen and what effect they have on the business model of
the company. By looking at each company’s open innovation strategies separately we can draw very
useful conclusions on what determines a successful open innovation strategy in order to create general
guidelines for other firms that want to adopt a more open approach to their innovation processes with a
minimum amount of risk. In addition the study of these strategies can help us grasp the philosophy
behind the operations and the corporate culture of each firm, which determine them to a great extent.
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A very successful example of intergrating coupled process in the ICT sector is Ericsson. Coupled
process is expressed by strategic cooperations and alliances with companies which help to create the
standards on which the telecommunications industry operates today. We can see that in order to
combine internal and external ideas Ericsson is using platforms like Ericsson Labs, Ericsson Business
Labs etc which lead to an appropriate business model in order to capture the value of innovations like
Chesbrough (2012) describes. These platforms indicate that Ericsson has adopted the philosophy that
not all people work for them and that they need to work with smart people from inside and outside our
company (Chesbrough, 2003a).
Ericsson is taking part in many standardization initiatives in the telecom industry. Cooperating in order
to innovate is not something new for this company. One of these cooperations is the 3GPP ecosystem.
In 1998 more than 300 companies, even though they competed in the market, decided to cooperate in
order to create the standards for new generation telecommunication networks. This is a very
characteristic case of a coupled process of open innovation. Through that cooperation, standards like
the EDGE, HSDPA and LTE were introduced in the market and they have become the dominant
standards in this industry, creating significant growth opportunities for the future that will benefit all
the participant companies. The main reason why this specific cooperation is a success is the clearly
defined IPR policy. This means that the firms that participate in the 3GPP ecosystem know beforehand
the percentage of the revenue that they will receive when a new innovation is introduced to the market
In the coupled process where companies form alliances and cooperate in order to innovate there is a
very important limiting factor the company might be very open and the customer might be very closed
or it could be the other way around.
The industry-driven traditional business strategy suggests that competition is a zero sum game.
Challenging this approach, Brandenburger and Nalebuff [1996] introduced the concept of 'Value Net'
suggesting that firms operate by having four main groups of influence, namely suppliers, customers,
competitors and complementors.
Entering into carefully selected coupled processes with suppliers, customers, competitors and/or
complementors is believed to i) intensify existing competitive advantages and/or ii) create new
difficult-to-imitate competitive advantages. These new competitive advantages may now be routed in
mutually beneficial relationships with customers, suppliers, competitors and/or complementors
[Livieratos et aI., 2012]. Continuing with Ericsson example Ericsson Labs is a website where Ericsson
displays their latest research in the field of Internet and mmunication Technologies (ICT), opening up
the findings of their R&D department and making them accessible to everyone. Through this initiative
Ericsson reveals concepts that have already been proven in practice but it also reveals ideas that are in
an early stage of development. The users of Ericsson Labs can find prototypes and running code on
several research areas. In addition Ericsson provides software and tools that these users can try out. The
outside-in part of Ericsson Labs is letting the public to temper with its IP. Ericsson receives valuable
feedback that can improve their innovations or it may lead to new concepts. This initiative is Ericsson’s
way of admitting that their R&D department is not flawless and that there are people outside of the
company that can contribute to their ideas.
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All the involved parties contribute in R&D with concepts and technologies. The existence of mutual
nondisclosure agreements is necessary for the protection of such a cooperation. By opening up the
research of Ericsson, joint innovation projects are created and technologies are tested in new business
contexts. All the organizations involved have rights over the results of the R&D and by exposing their
research and getting feedback they can adjust their internal innovation accordingly.
Even though some of the ideas become joint patents and some are patented separately the inclusion
principles are the ones that motivate for expanding the collaboration. In the projects that were Ericsson
jointly participated with others it is observed that the implementation and the adaptation of innovations
was done faster as well as the time that is required for an innovation to reach the market .