Open for innovation: the role of openness in explaining innovation performance among U.K. manufacturing firms

Strategic Management Journal - Tập 27 Số 2 - Trang 131-150 - 2006
Keld Laursen1, Ammon Salter2
1DRUID, Department of Industrial Economics and Strategy, Copenhagen Business School, Frederiksberg, Denmark
2Tanaka Business School, Imperial College London, London, U.K.

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Abstract

A central part of the innovation process concerns the way firms go about organizing search for new ideas that have commercial potential. New models of innovation have suggested that many innovative firms have changed the way they search for new ideas, adopting open search strategies that involve the use of a wide range of external actors and sources to help them achieve and sustain innovation. Using a large‐scale sample of industrial firms, this paper links search strategy to innovative performance, finding that searching widely and deeply is curvilinearly (taking an inverted U‐shape) related to performance. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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