Weighing the Pros and Cons of Engaging in Open Innovation
Weighing the Pros and Cons of Engaging in Open Innovation
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权衡参与开放创新的利弊
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2016
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Gergana Vladova
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André Ullrich;Gergana Vladova
开放式创新项目的优势在创新管理研究和实践中被广泛讨论（例如，Man & Duyster，2005）。特别是，中小型企业（SME）由于其固有的有限能力，预计将从开放式创新合作中获益最多（Lee等人，2010;货车de Vrande 2009）。然而，这些企业在开放式创新实践中也面临着多方面的挑战，导致开放式创新项目参与的不确定性甚至放弃。因此，中小企业常常面临着必须与外部伙伴合作以提高自身创新能力的决策困境，而不管它们科普相关风险的能力如何。虽然中小企业必须在积极影响和可能的消极后果之间找到适当的平衡（即，开放式创新的“阴暗面”，参见Huizingh，2011）的开放式创新项目参与，找到这种平衡的适当方法仍然缺乏。发起“开放式黑暗”研究项目的目的是使中小企业能够权衡参与开放式创新的风险和好处，为此开发：一）权衡和决策过程框架;二）自动应用这一框架并允许中小企业进行自我评估的软件工具。这两种解决方案都旨在构建和支持有关参与开放式创新项目的决策过程。为了解决这些有针对性的结果，一个跨学科的联盟促进了多视角和综合的整体研究方法。除了作为要求权威和执行者的几家中小企业外，该联盟还包括三个德国研究机构：经济法主席（帕德博恩大学）、技术和创新管理主席（亚琛大学）和商业信息学主席（波茨坦大学）。
The advantages of open innovation projects are widely discussed in innovation management research and practice (e.g., Man & Duysters, 2005). Particularly, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are expected to gain most from open innovation collaborations due to their inherently limited capabilities (Lee et al., 2010; van de Vrande 2009). However, these enterprises also face manifold challenges in open innovation practice, leading to uncertainty and even renunciation of open innovation project participation. Thus, SMEs often deal with the decision dilemma of having to cooperate with external partners in order to improve their own innovation capacity, regardless of their ability to cope with the correlated risks. Although it is essential for SMEs to find the right balance between positive effects and possible negative consequences (i.e., the “dark sides” of open innovation, cf. Huizingh, 2011) of open innovation project participation, appropriate methods of finding this balance are still lacking. The research project “Open Darkness” was initiated with the goal of enabling SMEs to weigh the risks and benefits of open innovation participation by developing: i) a weighing and decision process framework and ii) a software tool that automatically applies this framework and allows self-assessment for SMEs. Both solutions aim to structure and support the decision process regarding potential engagement in open innovation projects. In order to tackle these targeted outcomes, an interdisciplinary consortium facilitates a multi-perspective and an integrated holistic research approach. Besides several SMEs, which function as requirement authority and implementer, the consortium consists of three German research institutions: the Chair of Economic Law (University of Paderborn), the Chair of Technology and Innovation Management (University of Aachen), and the Chair of Business Informatics (University of Potsdam).