Building absorptive capacity to organise inbound open innovation in traditional industries

Technovation

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 10-21

  Spithoven, Andr ^a,b   Clarysse, Bart ^c,d   Knockaert, Mirjam ^c,e  

^a VLERICK BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Belgium)

^b Belgian Science Policy   (Belgium)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Absorptive capacity; Open innovation; Technology intermediation

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTIVE CAPACITY; DISTRIBUTED KNOWLEDGE; EXTERNAL KNOWLEDGE; IN-BUILDINGS; INNOVATION PROCESS; LOW LEVEL; OPEN INNOVATION; ORGANISATIONAL LEVEL; PRIMARY DATA; RESEARCH CENTRES; SMALL FIRM; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; TRADITIONAL INDUSTRY;

INDUSTRY; INNOVATION; TECHNOLOGY;

ENGINEERING RESEARCH;

EID: 78649722678     PISSN: 01664972     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.technovation.2010.10.003     Document Type: Article

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