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A pilot case study of open innovation in a Brazilian company

Product Management & Development, 2013

open innovation represents a powerful competitive aspect not only in developed countries but also in emerging economies. In this context, this paper aims at demonstrating some aspects of the introduction of an open innovation program in a company in Brazil. A unit of analysis that produces cosmetics was selected due to its practices of innovation management, which is considered as a benchmark in the country. Case-based research was used as the methodological approach. Data were collected mostly by document analysis but some questions were answered by electronic mail to construct a case description. The company performs activities related to scientific and technological as well as market knowledge. The organization applies the concept of open innovation since the 90's and has increased its activity since then. This paper describes the open innovation program and discusses aspects of drivers and success factors for external collaborations. Results show that an infrastructure for innovation in addition to the initiatives of open innovation support company performance. There are also multiple ways of collaborations such as cooperation, co-creation, co-design, services, consulting, financing, etc. Conclusively, the results have found ground to the existing literature in the subject at some extent.

Developing an open innovation capability in MNCs in emerging markets

2015

The benefits of using open innovation to increase the results of R&D activities are widely recognized. Yet, while extant research has primarily focused on the benefits, limitations and mechanisms of external collaborations, it has not sufficiently explored how firms implement an open innovation strategy. This paper proposes embedding open innovation entails balancing: a) the skillfulness of the team to implement an open innovation outbound strategy and b) the cumulative integration of open innovation programs into the firm?s strategy. Here, we report upon the study of a Brazilian multinational (Natura Cosmetics) and explain how it balanced these two dimensions over 14 years. We identified the implementation of an open innovation strategy occurs in three phases: initiation, implementation and establishment. Moreover, we identified boundary spanners and leadership support is fundamental to help connecting internal technological problems with external partnerships, which simultaneously...

Open Innovation in Brazil: Exploring Opportunities and Challenges

International Journal of Innovation, 2019

While open innovation has been increasingly adopted in developed countries, firms from emerging markets such as Brazil markedly fall behind this trend. Our understanding of the reasons behind this phenomenon remains nevertheless limited, since most research focuses on the industrialized world. In this paper, we aim to inspire the academic community to investigate the issue of why companies from emerging economies such as Brazil have limited open innovation strategies, when they need to draw on external partners as to overcome the institutional, resource and capability constraints they are subject to. We build on the argument that latecomer firms in emerging economies need to actively use open innovation more than ever, as to overcome internal rigidities and spur the innovative resources and capabilities required for the digital transformation and for addressing grand societal challenges. In reviewing current research on openness and especially in the Brazilian setting, we contend that it is a relevant empirical context to study, giving the potential to uncover unique mechanisms and theoretical relations by asking (and possibly answering) novel research questions. Building on a conceptual framework that links various implementation levels of open innovation, we identify themes that are either less well researched or contested and thereby suggest challenges and opportunities for future research.

An Analysis of Open Innovation Strategies in Firms in Low and Medium Technology Industries

IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, 2019

Open innovation (OI) has been mainly associated with high-technology firms. This paper aims to analyze how firms in low and medium technology industries implement their OI strategy. In doing so, we explore common patterns in OI strategies by considering inbound, outbound, and coupled OI practices. We also examine whether there are differences in innovation performance among companies adopting a specific OI strategy. The study is carried out on a sample of 242 Spanish innovating companies. Based on the relevance of the different OI practices, we identify three types of OI firms: advanced open innovators, intermediate open innovators, and incipient open innovators. Our results reveal that advanced open innovators have a higher performance in product innovation, and that there are no differences among groups in process and organizational innovation. Index Terms-Coupled OI, inbound OI, low and medium technology industries, open innovation (OI) practices, outbound OI.

Trends of Open Innovation in Developing Nations

Applications and Investigations

Evidently, innovation is a genuine reality within the entrepreneurships, given the circumstances of economic crisis, global competition, and novelties of technologies. Perplexing further to face the reality and overcome crises, enterprises are day by day adopting newly developed ideas, concepts, and perceptions to fit into the scenery of business dimension from within and outside the boundaries of their entities, thus channeling the entrepreneurships through the paradigm of open innovation. By far, the majority of the corporate businesses and multi-national enterprises are competing or collaborating with a consensus to promote value-added products, processes, or services. Notwithstanding, they are transforming the entire entrepreneurship infrastructure to face the reality and move ahead. A major portion of the business community, despite their justified contribution to economic growth and generation of employment, the sector belonging to the small and medium enterprises (SMEs), howe...

Determinants of business openness in the innovation processes

The concept of open innovation has achieved special relevance not only as an object of study in academics, but also as a framework for the development of new models of business management. This article explores the determinants of one of the dimensions of open innovation associated with the use of external knowledge for the development of business innovation processes. The analysis is carried out based on the microdata of the Development and Technological Innovation Survey EDIT 2015-2016 carried out by Colombia's statistical agency (DANE). To this end, a measure that captures the degree of openness of the company in relation to the use of external sources of information for the development of innovation activities is introduced. Variables related to the technological capabilities of the company, barriers to innovation, and appropriability strategy are considered as possible determinants.

Open Innovation as a Tool of Strategic Management

2018

The open innovation phenomenon has developed from a small club of innovation practitioners, mostly active in high-tech industries, to a widely discussed and implemented innovation practice. Simultaneously, a small community of management researchers has recently developed into an established research field. Once a field grows rapidly there is a danger that it may become a short-term fashion. This special issue reports on recent research evidence to further develop the open innovation research field. South Moravian in Czech Republic region started to support companies and help them with organization of open innovation session. The tool perspective: Opening up the innovation process requires a set of instruments. Those tools, for example, enable customers to create or configure their own product with tools kits or enable companies to integrate external problem solvers or idea creators. Currently a broad awareness of open innovation and its relevance to corporate R&D. Aim of paper is research and measure the results after ten years since Open innovation has been supported by region government in South Moravian region in Czech republic and was implemented in innovation strategy of this region. Regional strategy is partnership of South Moravian companies, local scientists, public authorities and other parties connected to development in the region. Open innovation has become important part of strategic management and has become a well-established, though still somewhat fragmented, academic discipline.

Open innovation: from technology exploitation to creation of superior performance

Asia Pacific Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Purpose Nowadays, to develop innovative activities in research and development units, it is desirable to rely on the concept of open innovation to take actions towards the identification of external capabilities of an organization and external knowledge acquisition. Therefore, this study aims to evaluate the impact of external technology acquisition (ETA), external technology exploitation (ETE) and culture of innovation (IC) on open innovation (OI) using SEM approach and then examine the amount of the impact of open innovation on organizational performance (OP) and value creation (VC). Design/methodology/approach This study was an applied survey in terms of research purpose and data collection method. The statistical population included all companies in Yazd Science and Technology Park (STP). To collect the data, 109 questionnaires were distributed. The content validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by experts’ comments, and Cronbach’s alpha coefficient was calculated equal to ...

Open innovation: so far and a way forward

World Journal of Science, Technology and Sustainable Development, 2013

Purpose -The purpose of this paper is to identify strategic and tactical factors that are crucial to explore, in future, to get insight into the open innovation spectrum. Design/methodology/approach -The study is based on literature review. To explore progress and future needs of open innovation studies, various contributory papers have been consulted and analyzed. Findings -Definition of open innovation is yet to be clear-cut. What open innovation is and what it is not, is still being debated. Moreover, open innovation overlaps other concepts such as user generation, crowdsourcing, and distributed innovation. Even though research on open innovation has significantly grown, there are still many issues that need to be addressed to get insight about open innovation in various contexts. Studies are mostly performed in the context of large firms and in developed countries. Research in the context of developing countries is still almost an untouched area.