Open Innovation and MFTIs in practice

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Table of contents

1. INTRODUCTION
1.1 BACKGROUND: OPEN INNOVATION; NEW OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES
1.1.1 The Promises of a Global Network of Experts
1.1.2 Challenges: Buying knowledge is not simple.
1.1.3 Open Innovation and MFTIs in practice
1.2 PROBLEM STATEMENT, PURPOSE OF THESIS, AND CONTRIBUTION
1.3 RESEARCH QUESTIONS
1.4 DELIMITATIONS
1.5 STRUCTURE OF THESIS
2. RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
2.1 RESEARCH STRATEGY
2.1.1 Inductive or Deductive Approach?
2.1.2 Quantitative research: Inquiry for making explanations
2.1.3 Qualitative research: Inquiry for promoting understanding
2.1.4 Chosen Research Strategy
2.2 RESEARCH DESIGN
2.2.1 Chosen Interview design
2.2.2 Selection of Interviewees
2.2.3 Interviewee Bias
2.3 EPISTEMOLOGY
2.4 CREDIBILITY
2.4.1 Internal Credibility
2.4.2 Triangulation
2.4.3 Transferability
2.5 RELIABILITY
2.5.1 The author’s skills
2.5.2 The Supervisor
2.6 GENERALIZABILITY
3. WHAT ARE INNOMEDIARIES, AND WHAT DO THEY DO?
3.1 INNOMEDIARIES
3.1.1 Defining the Innovation Intermediary
3.2 HOW DO INNOVATION INTERMEDIARIES ADD VALUE?
3.3 WHO ARE THE LARGEST INNOMEDIARIES, AND HOW ARE THEY DIFFERENT FROM ONE ANOTHER?
3.4 USING INNOCENTIVE – A WAY OF USING CROWDSOURCING
4. THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
4.1 THE ANATOMY OF INNOMEDIARY COLLABORATION
4.1.1 Finding and Selecting Suitable Projects
4.1.2 Project Crafting
4.1.3 Connection
4.1.4 Evaluation
4.1.5 Negotiation and Agreement
4.1.6 Implementation and Technology Development
4.2 EXPLORATION/EXPLOITATION
5. EMPIRICAL FINDINGS
5.1 CASE OVERVIEW
5.1.1 How the Collaboration Began and How it has Developed Since
5.1.2 Who are SCA?
5.1.3 InnoCentive
5.2 THE INNOVATION INTERMEDIATION PROCESS AT SCA
5.2.1 Finding and Selecting Suitable Projects
5.2.2 Crafting the Challenge
5.2.3 Evaluating Provided Solutions
5.2.4 Agreement and Implementation
6. ANALYSIS
6.1 THE INNOCENTIVE INTERMEDIATION PROCESS
6.1.1 Adjusted Framework for Collaboration with InnoCentive
6.2 FINDING AND SELECTING SUITABLE PROJECTS
6.2.1 Knowledge transfer and Solution adaptation
6.3 CRAFTING THE CHALLENGE
6.4 EVALUATION OF PROVIDED SOLUTIONS
6.5 AGREEMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION
7. DISCUSSION & IMPLICATIONS
7.1 THE SOURCE OF INNOVATIONS
7.2 THE NETWORK, THE APPROPRIABILITY PROBLEM AND THEIR EFFECT ON INNOMEDIARY COLLABORATION.
7.3 MODULARITY AND THE NEED FOR BASIC KNOWLEDGE
7.4 RADICAL INNOVATIONS, EXPLORATION AND EXPLOITATION
7.5 CHALLENGE CRAFTING: A PARALLEL TO NINESIGMA
7.6 BENEFITS FROM USING INNOCENTIVE
8. CONCLUSIONS & RECOMMENDATIONS
8.1 ANSWERING THE RESEARCH QUESTIONS
8.2 COMPLETING THE TABLE
9. IDEAS FOR FUTURE RESEARCH
10. BIBLIOGRAPHY