While open innovation organizations have grown in popularity, they hold a high failure rate.
This paper identifies limiting factors that contribute to this high failure rate at three levels …

Purpose In a context each day more global, a new paradigm has emerged–open innovation
(OI)–which may be understood as an innovation strategy in which organizations use internal …

In several countries, governments have assigned to public innovation intermediaries (PIIs)
the mandate to support the digital transition, by facilitating the development and adoption of …

Innovation intermediaries have emerged as prominent forms of intervention for supporting
technological changes and driving sociotechnical transitions. In this paper, we draw on an in …

Companies are increasingly implementing 'open'search processes to access external
knowledge. However, external knowledge search can be complex and costly, especially for …

Innovation intermediaries (IIs) have gained more attention in both industry and academia
since they are recognized as crucial actors that can facilitate the innovation process. This …

We discuss how public administrations have used crowdsourcing to find solutions to specific
problems posed by the COVID‐19 pandemic, and to what extent crowdsourcing has been …

Objective The objective of this article is to generate an innovation management model for
organizations in the functional food ingredients and additives sector, based on prioritization …

Intermediaries are an inherent part of value creation in open innovation, especially
crowdsourcing. They connect organizations seeking external input or solutions for an …

Aiming at reaping the benefits of open innovation, a growing number of organizations
utilizes innovation intermediaries as external facilitators. However, the effectiveness of such …