
"THE LANDSCAPE OF INNOVATION IS CHANGING"
The landscape of innovation is changing, but not in a dramatic way, conclude the first series of research from the VISION Era-Net resesearch program on Open and Collaborative Innovation.
Openness, collaboration, and networking matter increasingly for innovation performance, and this keeps driving change in Europe. Much of the change can be analyzed in terms of the concept "open innovation", although it alone doesn't suffice to describe the unfolding transformation.
The key policy message from the studies is that traditional
national innovation systems and clusters are forced to open up in order to stay
competitive.
Horizontal innovation policies gain relevance as we move from closed to open innovation processes and systems, the studies argue.
Third conclusion addresses the different implications of open innovation for large and small firms. Large firms, due to their superior organizational capabilities, seem to be better equipped to take advantage of opennes than small firms. Public policies may play an important role for the networking of small firms and their capacity to benefit from open innovation.
Three projects, which included about 20 researchers from the leading European innovation research centers, analyzed the challenges and opportunities presented by open innovation in Europe.
Click here for detailed project results and reports.The projects have significantly "europeanized" the concept of "open innovation" and broadened its theoretical foundations. Project "Open Innovation and Globalization" analyzed alos in detail how to existing innovation survey data to describe and analyze changing innovation
processes and the open innovation phenomenon..
Project
"Sectoral Modes of Open Innovation" analyzed how open innovation is different between industries and technologies, as well as analyzed in detail what a group of small countries are doing to foster open innovation.
The results of the projects were presented at a conference in Stockholm in April 2008.
To download the presentations, visit the EVENT SITE.