Open innovation: current status and research opportunities

Joel West, Marcel Bogers · 2016 · Innovation

Summary. Open innovation has grown rapidly as a research field since 2003. This paper identifies key gaps in existing research, including the need for more work on outbound innovation, services, network collaboration forms like ecosystems and platforms, and adoption by small and nonprofit organizations. It calls for better measurement of open innovation's performance effects and understanding of why initiatives fail, plus stronger connections to established theories like absorptive capacity and dynamic capabilities.

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  title   = {Open innovation: current status and research opportunities},
  author  = {Joel West and Marcel Bogers},
  journal = {Innovation},
  year    = {2016},
  doi     = {10.1080/14479338.2016.1258995},
  url     = {https://doi.org/10.1080/14479338.2016.1258995}
}

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DOI

10.1080/14479338.2016.1258995

Countries

United States, Denmark

Regions

North America, Europe

Categories

innovation-theory, innovation-networks, general-innovation

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2026-04-28