Search for dissertations about: "open innovation"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 115 swedish dissertations containing the words open innovation.

  2. 11. Striving for meaning - a study of innovation processes

    Author : Åsa Öberg; Yvonne Eriksson; Roberto Verganti; Koenraad Debackere; Mälardalens högskola; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; meaning; interpreting; innovation process; hermeneutics; exposing; criticising; mening; tolkande; innovations processer; hermeneutik; blottlägga; kritiskt förhållningssätt; Innovation and Design; innovation och design;

    Abstract : Traditionally, innovation processes have often focused on creatively solving problems with the help of new technology or business models. However, when describing products in terms of function or visual appearance, the reflection on a less visible dimension, the product meaning, is left out. READ MORE

  4. 12. Managerial practices for open innovation collaboration: Authoring the spaces "in-between"

    Author : Anna Yström; Chalmers tekniska högskola; []
    Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; managerial practice; action research; innovation management; collaborative advantage; longitudinal case study; Open innovation;

    Abstract : Open innovation was introduced in 2003 as a new business model for how to transfer ideas or competence across organizational boundaries. Making this shift from closed to open innovation processes is argued to offer the possibility of creating and developing technology, services and processes in new ways. READ MORE

  5. 13. Managing Digital Open Innovation with User Communities : A Study of Community Sensing and Product Openness Capabilities in the Video Game Industry

    Author : Peter Ek; David Sörhammar; Peter Thilenius; Daniel Tolstoy; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; User communities; open innovation; dynamic capabilities; video game industry; Business Studies; Företagsekonomi;

    Abstract : Digital and open innovation has changed how product innovation occur and how it is managed by firms. Digital technology as an enabler of increasingly distributed innovation processes has in particular impacted firms’ abilities to draw on, and leverage, large numbers of external users and user communities to develop their offerings. READ MORE

  6. 14. Intellectual Property Strategies and Innovation: Causes and Consequences for Firms and Nations

    Author : Marcus Holgersson; Chalmers tekniska högskola; []
    Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; appropriation; policy; innovation; management; intellectual property right; strategy; patent; open innovation; technology; Intellectual property; economics;

    Abstract : New and useful ideas and knowledge, commonly denoted innovations after coming into use, are of decisive importance for economic growth and welfare. To promote the generation and diffusion of innovations, most, if not all, industrialized and industrializing societies rely on some form of an intellectual property rights (IPRs) system. READ MORE

  7. 15. Innovation outside: When spin-off firms and developer communities change the boundaries of the firm

    Author : Martin Wallin; Chalmers tekniska högskola; []
    Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; free and open source software; external venturing; organization of innovation; spin-off; Sweden; developer communities; resource-based theory of the firm; innovation outside; open innovation;

    Abstract : Few observers dispute that innovation is at the very heart of economic development and prosperity and a key determinant for the competitiveness of firms. Yet the literature has found it challenging to incorporate the boundary-spanning characteristic of innovation into the theory of the firm. READ MORE