Perspective: Leveraging Open Innovation through Paradox

Ghita Dragsdahl Lauritzen, Maria Karafyllia

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Abstract

In search of fresh ideas, firms increasingly engage with external contributors in open innovation collaborations. However, research has found that such collaborations frequently fail, and has pointed to conflicting demands of control and openness. On the one hand, firms want controlled and selective participation, clarity of purpose, and a choice of ideas based on their own current capacity and value appropriation strategies. On the other, their external contributors tend to want open and unfettered participation, the creative potential of the idea per se, and unrestricted knowledge sharing. This article proposes to shift the conceptual frame from looking at the tensions between control and openness as problems to looking at them as synergies. Drawing on the literature of open innovation and organizational paradox, this article contributes a novel perspective on open innovation that suggests how firms can leverage open innovation collaborations through paradox by combining practices based on differentiation and integration.
In search of fresh ideas, firms increasingly engage with external contributors in open innovation collaborations. However, research has found that such collaborations frequently fail, and has pointed to conflicting demands of control and openness. On the one hand, firms want controlled and selective participation, clarity of purpose, and a choice of ideas based on their own current capacity and value appropriation strategies. On the other, their external contributors tend to want open and unfettered participation, the creative potential of the idea per se, and unrestricted knowledge sharing. This article proposes to shift the conceptual frame from looking at the tensions between control and openness as problems to looking at them as synergies. Drawing on the literature of open innovation and organizational paradox, this article contributes a novel perspective on open innovation that suggests how firms can leverage open innovation collaborations through paradox by combining practices based on differentiation and integration.
LanguageEnglish
JournalJournal of Product Innovation Management
Volume36
Issue number1
Pages107-121
Number of pages15
ISSN0737-6782
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 2019

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Published online: 12 October 2018

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Dragsdahl Lauritzen, Ghita ; Karafyllia, Maria. / Perspective : Leveraging Open Innovation through Paradox. In: Journal of Product Innovation Management. 2019 ; Vol. 36, No. 1. pp. 107-121
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