Profiting from external knowledge: how firms use different knowledge acquisition strategies to improve their innovation performance

Innovation managers and innovation scholars increasingly emphasize the open innovation model, introduced by Henry Chesbrough in 2003. This model postulates that the innovation process should be flexible and cross organizational boundaries, which enables the transfer of knowledge and capabilities bet...

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1. Verfasser: Batterink, Maarten Harmen 1979- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Wageningen, The Netherlands Wageningen Academic Publishers 2009
Schriftenreihe:Innovation and sustainability series v. 3
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Zusammenfassung:Innovation managers and innovation scholars increasingly emphasize the open innovation model, introduced by Henry Chesbrough in 2003. This model postulates that the innovation process should be flexible and cross organizational boundaries, which enables the transfer of knowledge and capabilities between organizations. However, until now, it remained unclear which types of firms apply open innovation, whether it realy raises their performance, and how this can be managed in the best way. This book addresses the important issue how innovative firms profit from external knowledge to improve their innovation performance. Using large scale empirical evidence from the Dutch industry, this book shows that especially Small and Medium sized Enterprises (SMEs) and firms from low-tech sectors have increasingly adopted open innovation strategies over the period 1994-2004, and are clearly catching up large and high-tech firms. The res
Beschreibung:Originally presented as: Thesis (Ph. D.)--Wageningen University, 2009. - Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-166)
pt. I. Quantitative analyses -- pt. II. Qualitative analyses
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ISBN:9086866557
9789086866557
DOI:10.3920/978-90-8686-655-7

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