TY - JOUR
T1 - Open for innovation
T2 - the role of openness in explaining innovation performance among U.K. manufacturing firms
AU - Laursen, Keld
AU - Salter, Ammon
PY - 2006/2/1
Y1 - 2006/2/1
N2 - A central part of the innovation process concerns the way firms go about organizing search for new ideas that have commercial potential. New models of innovation have suggested that many innovative firms have changed the way they search for new ideas, adopting open search strategies that involve the use of a wide range of external actors and sources to help them achieve and sustain innovation. Using a large-scale sample of industrial firms, this paper links search strategy to innovative performance, finding that searching widely and deeply is curvilinearly (taking an inverted U-shape) related to performance.
AB - A central part of the innovation process concerns the way firms go about organizing search for new ideas that have commercial potential. New models of innovation have suggested that many innovative firms have changed the way they search for new ideas, adopting open search strategies that involve the use of a wide range of external actors and sources to help them achieve and sustain innovation. Using a large-scale sample of industrial firms, this paper links search strategy to innovative performance, finding that searching widely and deeply is curvilinearly (taking an inverted U-shape) related to performance.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=31944450165&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/smj.507
U2 - 10.1002/smj.507
DO - 10.1002/smj.507
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:31944450165
SN - 0143-2095
VL - 27
SP - 131
EP - 150
JO - Strategic Management Journal
JF - Strategic Management Journal
IS - 2
ER -