Research in the Decision Sciences for the Service Economy: Best Papers from the 2015 Annual Conference

15. Setting a Research Agenda for Developing Open Innovation Competence in SMEs

—A. Ancarani ([e-mail]), DICAR, University of Catania

—M. Henke, Institutsbereich Unternehmenslogistik Fraunhofer-Institut für Materialfluss und Logistik, IML

—H. Lorentz, Turku School of Economics, University of Turku

Abstract

This paper sets out to identify the literature that investigates the open innovation processes in SMEs, and to suggest an agenda for further research for supporting the development of open innovation competence in SMEs. Based on the literature, it emerges that the initiatives addressing and boosting OI in SMEs should consider success factors in the formation of intermediated innovation networks, ways of increasing absorptive ...