A Framework for Open Innovation Adoption at firm level (the Case: a Firm in Food Packaging and Printing Industry)

Abstract

Following Chesbrough's statements of open innovation as a spectrum rather than a dichotomy, many studies have been conducted to reflect the dynamics in its implementation in the form of typologies, modes, themes, and mechanisms. These studies, with considering only some aspects of the innovation process, have tried to develop a method for classifying and providing a model for adoption of open innovation. After reviewing the literature and interviewing with experts, the components and factors in each implementation step were obtained. Finally, to analyze and plot the interrelationships between the various components of the open innovation model DMATELE technique was used. Consequently, the open innovation model was determined in the study company. This model is the result of a chain of decisions in relation to each component of OI model within the phases of the innovation process. The decision chains include: selecting the “pre-print” domain as content of the model, choosing the direction of “market driven –invitational” for actors, and choosing mechanisms for increasing “absorptive capacity”, “transformative and connective capacity”, and “desorptive capacity.”

Keywords

• open innovation
• knowledge capacity
• innovation process
• food packaging and printing