… are early adopters of the concept. Our findings demonstrate that many Open Innovation
concepts … that Open Innovation is not ipso facto a recipe for outsourcing R&D. We conclude that …

… issue in more detail and also investigate whether having an offensive or defensive strategy
is related to the timing of open innovation adoption, eg, early adopters versus late adopters. …

… These issues are investigated using a multiple case study involving 4 firms that can be
considered as “early adopters” of Open Innovation in Italy. The paper provides several insights to …

… This paper takes a contingency view to investigate how the role of early adopters (EAs) in
the diffusion process changes between platform and nonplatform innovations, what launch …

… Most empirical investigations about this emerging concept have been case studies of successful
early adopters of open innovation, and their analyses have largely been at the company …

… the extent to which early adopter characteristics are different or similar in whether they adopt
disruptive or sustaining innovations. A deeper understanding of early adopters could assist …

… innovators and early adopters can … earlier adopter groups to the later adopter groups. The
group innovators tend to influence the group early adopters, whereas the group early adopters …

… mixing of innovators and early adopters in networks. … early adopters than other widely used
indices. Top Candidate nodes adopt earlier and have higher reach among innovators, early …

… With reference to diffusion of innovation, early adopters are … diffusing an innovation, firms
can act on the early adopters, by … early adopters, until they identify a category of early adopters …

… Toward a theory of open innovation, we develop a typology of OI strategies that integrates
… Through our review, we develop a theoretically grounded definition of open innovation, …