Overcoming cultural barriers in open innovation processes through intermediaries
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Date Issued
2017
Type
article
Volume
15
Issue
15
Start Page
447
End Page
459
ISSN
14778238
Abstract
Certain cultural barriers, such as insufficient
openness, aversion to risk-taking, organizational inertia
and specific syndromes could inhibit successful Open
Innovation processes. However, how Open Innovation
Intermediaries help in overcoming obstacles to successfully
achieve Open Innovation processes, has not yet been
analysed in depth. This paper aims to fill this gap, relying
on extant contributions of Open Innovation processes,
Open Innovation Intermediary features and types. Based on
the distinction between outside-in, inside-out and coupled
Open Innovation processes, the theoretical framework
developed here identifies specific cultural barriers affecting
each process and suggests which intermediary types could
be more suited to sustain firms undergoing these processes.
The framework supports firms opening up their internal
R&D activities to choose the intermediary type most suitable
for adaption to an appropriate culture, as well as
overcoming any possible cultural barriers.
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