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  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
44 Citations
7,552 Views
31 Pages

13 April 2020

In today’s business environment, it is often argued, that if organizations want to achieve a sustainable competitive advantage, they must be able to innovate, so that they can meet complex market demands as they deliver products, solutions, or...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,806 Views
32 Pages

Navigating the Urgency: An Open Innovation Project of Protective Equipment Development from a Quadruple Helix Perspective

  • Alex de Lima Teodoro da Penha,
  • Samuel Vinícius Bonato,
  • Joana Baleeiro Passos,
  • Eduardo da Silva Fernandes,
  • Cínthia Kulpa and
  • Carla Schwengber ten Caten

16 February 2024

This study empirically explores the Quadruple Helix model’s potential in facilitating an urgent open innovation project. By examining the life cycle of the project, developed during the COVID-19 pandemic crisis in Brazil, it reveals complex int...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
14,268 Views
16 Pages

The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between emotional, managerial, and intellectual competence of team members, which refer to the LDQ (Leadership Development Questionnaire) and impact on project success. (1) Background: Large an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
9,382 Views
27 Pages

4 February 2016

Most innovation activities that are inevitable for sustainable growth are coordinated via research and development (R&D) projects, which can differ widely in terms of both project and open innovation characteristics, even when conducted within th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,441 Views
26 Pages

A New Approach for Agile Teams’ Allocation in Open Innovation Projects

  • Vitor Anes,
  • António Abreu,
  • Ana Dias and
  • João Calado

16 February 2023

Due to constant change in the marketplace, it can be difficult for companies to secure the material, human, and technological resources necessary for competitive innovation activities. In this sense, and to overcome these constraints, the open innova...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,764 Views
37 Pages

Project Management in the Development of Dynamic Capabilities for an Open Innovation Era

  • Vânia Patrício,
  • Renato Lopes da Costa,
  • Leandro Pereira and
  • Nelson António

The aim of the research is to explain how Project Management (PM) ensures the accumulation, integration, utilization, and reconfiguration of the capabilities and knowledge acquired in projects in order to build dynamic capabilities (DCs). This study...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,726 Views
11 Pages

Knowledge Management Maturity Contributes to Project-Based Companies in an Open Innovation Era

  • Leandro Pereira,
  • António Fernandes,
  • Mariana Sempiterno,
  • Álvaro Dias,
  • Renato Lopes da Costa and
  • Nélson António

Knowledge is a crucial asset for any organization nowadays. Despite the temporary nature of projects, proper knowledge management can improve outcomes and benefit future endeavors. However, an effective knowledge management system has to be tailored...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
1,965 Views
27 Pages

17 February 2025

In open innovation projects (OIPs), project members from different participating organizations often have dual social identifications, namely, project identification and organizational identification. While such dual identifications may align or conf...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,228 Views
15 Pages

22 August 2023

Improving the level of cooperative governance of open innovation projects is a key bridge and powerful starting point for promoting the full integration and coordinated development of different market systems. Against the background of the synergy of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,943 Views
23 Pages

System of Project Management at a Medical Hub as an Instrument for Implementation of Open Innovation

  • Igor Ilin,
  • Olga Voronova,
  • Dmitriy Pavlov,
  • Azret Kochkarov,
  • Andrea Tick and
  • Bulat Khusainov

1 April 2023

Globalization activates qualitative changes in multiple economic entities and requires the development of alternative forms of business organization. At present, one of the most promising development tracks is represented by the implementation of net...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,935 Views
20 Pages

Methodology for Economic Analysis of Highly Uncertain Innovative Projects of Improbability Type

  • Aleksandr Babkin,
  • Nadezhda Kvasha,
  • Daniil Demidenko,
  • Ekaterina Malevskaia-Malevich and
  • Evgeny Voroshin

20 December 2022

Modern conditions for real investment are generally associated with increasing uncertainty, which is even more relevant when evaluating innovative projects. Current innovation analysis methods using a linear model are outdated. At the same time, an o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,020 Views
17 Pages

Enablers of Open Innovation in Software Development Micro-Organization

  • Mateusz Trzeciak,
  • Łukasz Daniel Sienkiewicz and
  • Emil Bukłaha

The implementation of the open innovation (OI) model is associated with a significant organizational change within the existing processes, business models, and prevailing customs. This change takes appropriate measures to prepare for and conduct an e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,943 Views
20 Pages

Antifragile Philosophy in R&D Projects: Applying Q Methodology and the Possibility of Open Innovation

  • Enara Mardaras,
  • Garikoitz Artola,
  • Sebastian Duarte and
  • José Ramón Otegi-Olaso

Antifragile philosophy can be the key to improving the management of organizations that base their activity on research and development (R&D) projects. These are types of projects with the greatest uncertainty in all aspects, and the application...

  • Article
  • Open Access
206 Views
15 Pages

30 December 2025

Existing studies into information technology (IT) agile project management (APM) focus on describing the mechanism of how this process should be executed. The distinctive feature of the extensive literature on the subject is the consensus on the even...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,475 Views
26 Pages

A Hybrid Fuzzy MCDM Approach to Open Innovation Partner Evaluation

  • Sanja Puzović,
  • Jasmina Vesić Vasović,
  • Dragan D. Milanović and
  • Vladan Paunović

19 July 2023

Even though interest in open innovation (OI) both as a research field and as an industrial practice for creating competitively advantageous innovation through collaboration has grown exponentially over the last decades, the issue of how to transform...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,901 Views
15 Pages

17 October 2022

Industry 4.0 and the turbulent environment have rendered increasing interest in open innovation that extends from the bilateral transmission of expertise to multilateral platform collaborations. Open innovation ventures are seen as intricate collabor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
76 Citations
5,403 Views
17 Pages

The main aim of the article is to fill the gap concerning the recognition of constructs of programme management supporting open innovations. Current knowledge on this subject is mainly limited to identifying success factors of open innovation and pro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,266 Views
21 Pages

CNR–Fincantieri Joint Projects: A Successful Example of Collaboration between Research and Industry Based on the Open Innovation Approach

  • Emilio Fortunato Campana,
  • Maria Carmela Di Piazza,
  • Maria Di Summa,
  • Erina Ferro,
  • Patrizio Massoli,
  • Marco Sacco,
  • Francesco Soldovieri,
  • Bianca Maria Vaglieco,
  • Nicola Bassan and
  • Paolo Guglia
  • + 2 authors

This paper contributes to the open innovation literature by presenting a successful application of the open innovation approach in the maritime sector between Fincantieri (FC), one of the world’s largest shipbuilding groups, and the National Re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
54 Citations
8,028 Views
23 Pages

12 June 2018

In recent years, cultural sustainability has attracted increasing attention within the discourse of sustainable development and sustainable cities. Notwithstanding some effort put on conceptualizing the relationship between culture and sustainability...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,794 Views
19 Pages

Opening Our Innovation Ecosystems to All: The INTEGER Project Case Study

  • Fatima Canseco-Lopez,
  • Artur Serra and
  • Marta Martorell Camps

31 January 2025

Quadruple Helix open innovation ecosystems are gaining relevance as they incorporate different actors with different perspectives, contributing significantly to the development of social innovation communities that are more responsive to today’...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,875 Views
26 Pages

Design Trend Forecasting by Combining Conceptual Analysis and Semantic Projections: New Tools for Open Innovation

  • Alessandro Manetti,
  • Antonia Ferrer-Sapena,
  • Enrique A. Sánchez-Pérez and
  • Pablo Lara-Navarra

In this paper, we describe a new trend analysis and forecasting method (Deflexor), which is intended to help inform decisions in almost any field of human social activity, including, for example, business, art and design. As a result of the combinati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,095 Views
28 Pages

The tender process is an inseparable step of the contract award process in the public sector, and from the other point of view, it is one of the crucial elements of the core business of construction contractors. Reviewing previous research reveals a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
7,642 Views
28 Pages

27 September 2021

This study assessed the “creation of technological solutions for electronic devices” competencies evaluation when faculty–industry liaison is available. This experience at Tecnológico de Monterrey (TEC) was developed with challenge-based learning pro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
6,613 Views
33 Pages

20 March 2023

It is often argued that efficient collaboration is the key to success. However, research shows that if collaboration is not properly managed, collaborative risks may emerge, threatening business success. Furthermore, research shows that there is a la...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,483 Views
18 Pages

Measuring the Openness of Innovation

  • Nicola Bellantuono,
  • Pierpaolo Pontrandolfo and
  • Barbara Scozzi

18 February 2021

Measuring the openness of innovation is essential to understanding whether and under which conditions increasing openness is beneficial for organizations. However, no consensus has been so far achieved on which dimensions characterize the openness of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,062 Views
16 Pages

Improving Personnel Management by Organizational Projects: Implications for Open Innovation

  • Alexander Bril,
  • Olga Kalinina,
  • Olga Valebnikova,
  • Natalia Valebnikova,
  • Marisa Camastral,
  • Dmitry Shustov and
  • Natalya Ostrovskaya

The methodology and basic elements of the business process of one-stage economic assessment of organizational projects for personnel management at Russian enterprises are presented. The aim of the study is to analyze and develop clear criteria for as...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,853 Views
17 Pages

9 March 2020

This study, by conducting a laboratory experiment, investigates whether social inducement can be an external instrument to promote open innovation. The study’s findings suggest that social inducement, on average, leads subjects to invest more i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,651 Views
12 Pages

This study investigated the relationship between open innovation and the radicalness of innovation. The balance between radical and incremental innovation is an essential part of the ambidextrous use of explorative and exploitative strategies, and th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,820 Views
18 Pages

Open innovation (OI) has become an essential business model for big tech companies and innovation ecosystems. However, most STEM high schools in the United States do not have appropriate OI programs for students. This paper explores how various persp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
145 Citations
3,208 Views
20 Pages

The purpose of this study is to answer the research question, “How do we conquer the growth limits of capitalism?” Based on existing studies on growth limits of capitalism by Marx and Schumpeter as well as the recent discussions of Drucker, Rifkin, a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,121 Views
18 Pages

Information technologies (IT) architecture and infrastructure is a significant cost item, especially for enterprises with complex production infrastructure and equipment that require automated and digital devices to collect and process primary data o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,668 Views
15 Pages

This study investigates the positive effects of an appropriability regime and perceived similarity to green co-innovation performance when considering green open innovation activities as the mediator. It proposes a novel construct, i.e., green open i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,168 Views
22 Pages

30 October 2024

Compared with traditional closed innovation, open innovation brings more new ideas, technologies, and resources to megaprojects, which is becoming increasingly important in the face of growing complexity and sustainability. Drawing on the application...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
8,397 Views
11 Pages

30 January 2018

This study focuses on three important shared values—trust, openness, and commitment—and examines the impact of these values on project performance and outcomes, specifically for science and innovation research projects. To this end, 12 in-depth inter...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,858 Views
17 Pages

6 October 2022

Until recently, it had not been certain to what extent the integration of SMEs in Living Labs, as a special form of open innovation ecosystems, actually leads to successful commercialization of (sustainable) products and/or services. Today, while the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,565 Views
18 Pages

24 August 2025

In the era of digital–real integration, open-source collaboration has become a strategic pathway for accelerating the innovation catch-up of China’s industrial software. This study employs an exploratory multi-case design, focusing on the...

  • Case Report
  • Open Access
22 Citations
1,800 Views
19 Pages

As the creative economy has developed, the university has been given an important role of nurturing creative talents that companies desire to have. The most important objective in creative education is to provide a support system and a good environme...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,786 Views
33 Pages

Towards Citizen Co-Created Public Service Apps

  • Mikel Emaldi,
  • Unai Aguilera,
  • Diego López-de-Ipiña and
  • Jorge Pérez-Velasco

2 June 2017

WeLive project’s main objective is about transforming the current e-government approach by providing a new paradigm based on a new open model oriented towards the design, production and deployment of public services and mobile apps based on the colla...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,220 Views
18 Pages

Open-Eco-Innovation for SMEs with Pan-European Key Enabling Technology Centres

  • Faruk Civelek,
  • Romit Kulkarni,
  • Karl-Peter Fritz,
  • Tanja Meyer,
  • Costas Troulos,
  • Thomas Guenther and
  • André Zimmermann

13 October 2020

The project “key enabling technologies for clean production” (KET4CP), which is supported by the European Commission, has the aim to connect small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) and Technology Centres (TC) for cleaner, greener and mor...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,966 Views
7 Pages

Real-Life Experiences in Using Open Source for Autonomy Applications

  • Mohsen Malayjerdi,
  • Raivo Sell,
  • Ehsan Malayjerdi,
  • Mustafa İlhan Akbaş and
  • Rahul Razdan

4 November 2024

The open-source paradigm is well known for its unique potential to crowd-source innovation with spectacular examples of success, such as Linux. The knowledge base of methods to build more successful open-source communities has been growing with conce...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,649 Views
24 Pages

Capturing the Bigger Picture? Applying Text Analytics to Foster Open Innovation Processes for Sustainability-Oriented Innovation

  • Peter Wehnert,
  • Christoph Kollwitz,
  • Christofer Daiberl,
  • Barbara Dinter and
  • Markus Beckmann

16 October 2018

In open innovation initiatives for sustainability-oriented innovations, it is indispensable to have a wide array of engaging stakeholders. Yet, as not all relevant actors are able or willing to participate, important opinions can go unnoticed. Due to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,288 Views
14 Pages

Driving Innovation Initiatives in a Multinational Company Subsidiary: A Case Study and Conceptual Framework for Further Application

  • Jeferson Lima Ribeiro,
  • José Antônio Valle Antunes Junior,
  • Débora Oliveira da Silva,
  • Wagner Dorneles da Silva and
  • Miguel Afonso Sellitto

This study aims at identifying factors that facilitate the development of the capacity to generate innovations in a subsidiary of a multinational company. Based on the understanding that innovation management deals with the establishment of organizat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
70 Citations
9,905 Views
15 Pages

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused huge and disruptive technological changes in the healthcare sector, transforming the way businesses and societies function. To respond to the global health crisis, there have been numerous innovation projects in the h...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,788 Views
21 Pages

6 December 2018

The aim of this paper is twofold: firstly, investigate the theory of governance and open innovation by adding the process of value creation and value capture; secondly, to discuss the potential link between open innovation and economic sustainability...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
12,894 Views
17 Pages

Industry 4.0 and Smart Systems in Manufacturing: Guidelines for the Implementation of a Smart Statistical Process Control

  • Lucas Schmidt Goecks,
  • Anderson Felipe Habekost,
  • Antonio Maria Coruzzolo and
  • Miguel Afonso Sellitto

Digital transformations in manufacturing systems confer advantages for enhancing competitiveness and ensuring the survival of companies by reducing operating costs, improving quality, and fostering innovation, falling within the overarching umbrella...

  • Article
  • Open Access
47 Citations
6,968 Views
24 Pages

Sustainable Development towards Openness SME Innovation: Taking Advantage of Intellectual Capital, Sustainable Initiatives, and Open Innovation

  • Chanchai Phonthanukitithaworn,
  • Wutthiya Aekthanate Srisathan,
  • Chavis Ketkaew and
  • Phaninee Naruetharadhol

23 January 2023

The issues of the relationship between the innovative maturity of enterprises, the orientation of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to the principles of sustainability, and the expansion of their participation in sustainable development with...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,408 Views
26 Pages

11 December 2024

Megaproject construction endeavors and technological innovation activities, led by industry–university–research (IUR) collaboration, demonstrate marked disparities in value orientations, implementing entities, and constituent components....

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,981 Views
17 Pages

The Role of Open-Source Software in the Energy Sector

  • Jonathan Klimt,
  • Niklas Eiling,
  • Felix Wege,
  • Jonas Baude and
  • Antonello Monti

8 August 2023

Fast digitalization of the power grids and the adoption of innovative software solutions is key to a successful energy transition. In other sectors, such as telecommunication or cloud computing, open-source software has already proven capable of tran...

  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
9,448 Views
24 Pages

Nowadays, the relevance of technology transfer center network has been greatly increased due to interdisciplinary modern innovations, and cross-sectoral collaboration in project implementation. This paper highlights theoretical and conceptual foundat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,613 Views
21 Pages

Growing competition in the education economy has caused companies to look for new innovative solutions that can increase their competitiveness. These processes practically concern the whole world, and the development of new technologies that are rela...

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