About
7th Annual World Open Innovation Conference
Topics
Open innovation behavior & cognition
- Individual-level attributes and behaviors associated with open innovation (e.g., identity, commitment, motivation, resistance to change, communication and learning)
- Microfoundations of open innovation and related topics
- The human side of open innovation, and the role of human resource management
Open innovation strategy and design
- Formal and informal organizational structures for open innovation
- Project-level attributes related to open innovation strategy and design (e.g., project complexity and uncertainty)
- Nature and outcomes of entrepreneurial opportunities that open innovation can enable and help to enact
- Combinations of “open” and “closed” strategies
- Business model innovation
Open innovation communities and users
- Leveraging knowledge produced by individual users with different abilities and motivations
- How to sustain different forms of open innovation communities
- Alignment between organizations and communities of innovation
Open innovation ecosystems
- How new network forms combine value creation and value capture
- Interactions between heterogeneous actors in innovation ecosystems (and their governance)
- Governance of digital platforms
- Crowd-based search and financing
Open policy & governance
- The design, implementation, and effects of policies for open innovation
- New forms of democracy and collaborative public management (e.g., cities, regions, governments)
- Open strategy, both in process and in content
Others topics that may not directly fit the above themes, such as...
- Technology, digitization and open innovation
- Open innovation and sustainability
- Open innovation in different contexts (e.g., services, SMEs, international business, different industries)
- New metrics or methodologies for studying open innovation
- Linking open innovation to broader theories of management or economics