What is the Degree of Inbound Open Innovation in Spanish Firms?: An Exploratory Analysis

• Autores: Marta Ortiz de Urbina Criado
• Localización: Open innovation in firms and public administrations: Technologies for value creation / Carmen de Pablos Heredero (ed. lit.), David López Berzosa (ed. lit.), 2012, ISBN 978-1-61350-341-6, págs. 79-96
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The aim of this chapter is to examine the degree to which Spanish firms follow the open innovation paradigm regarding the acquisition of technology assets. The research question is what is the degree of Inbound Open Innovation in Spanish Firms? To answer that question, the author has selected a sample of small, medium and large-size Spanish firms and they include firms from the industrial and service sectors. A two-step cluster analysis has been developed to classify firms in five groups and they have analyzed the differences between the firms included in each cluster in relation to the firms� characteristics and innovation behavior. The author has find that firms with higher degrees of Inbound Open Innovation are the most innovative in terms of product and process, they are the firms that buy more R&D services and usually cooperate with other organizations to develop R&D and innovation activities.