Open for innovation: The role of openness in explaining innovation performance among UK manufacturing firms

• 成果类型: Article; Proceedings Paper
• 署名作者: Laursen, K; Salter, A
• 署名单位: Imperial College London; Copenhagen Business School
• 刊物名称: STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0143-2095
• DOI: 10.1002/smj.507
• 发表日期: 2006
• 页码: 131-150
• 关键词: Openness; INNOVATIVE SEARCH; search strategies; INNOVATION; innovative performance

摘要

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 (c) 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.