Open innovation and new issues in R&D organization and personnel management

Giorgio Petroni, Karen Venturini, Chiara Verbano · 2011 · The International Journal of Human Resource Management

Summary. Open innovation practices reshape how companies organize R&D and manage researchers. Italian multinational firms in pharmaceuticals, food, chemicals, and aerospace increasingly collaborate with universities and external research centers, adopt matrix and network structures, and hire knowledge integrators rather than traditional scientists. Personnel management and training models shift away from Anglo-American approaches toward Japanese and German practices emphasizing collaborative expertise.

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DOI

10.1080/09585192.2011.561250

Countries

Italy

Regions

Europe

Categories

innovation-networks, innovation-theory, general-innovation

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2026-04-28