The future of open innovation
Institutional openness is becoming increasingly popular in practice and academia: open innovation, open R&D and open business models. Our special issue builds on the concepts,underlying assumptions and implications discussed in two previous R&D Management special issues (2006, 2009). This overview indicates nine perspectives needed to develop an open innovation theory more fully. It also assesses some of the recent evidence that has come to lighta bout open innovation, in theory and in practice
Oliver Gassmann, Ellen Enkel and Henry Chesbrough