Enabling Open Innovation: proposal of a framework supporting ICT and KMS implementation in web-based intermediaries
Year: 2009
Type: article
Abstract: Open Innovation is a model used to describe how nowadays companies source and exploit new\ntechnologies, new products and services. Web-Based Intermediaries (WBIs) have entered the\nemerging innovation market and are expected to dramatically increase the number of innovation\nexchanges. However there are not yet clear theoretical guidelines supporting the design and\nmanagement of such intermediaries. We use organizational sense-making theory and relative\nabsorptive capacity (RAC) theory to analyze the factors that still hinder Open Innovation. From sensemaking theory and RAC theory we draw directions on the services WBIs need to provide in order to\neffectively support an innovation market. Since information technology is critical to the success of a\nWBI, we also give directions on how ICT and KMS can be used in order to support these services.
Authors: Sven Carlsson, Corvello, Piero Migliarese
Language: English
Subfield: Strategy and Management
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1757108630