Outbound Open Innovation and its Effect on Firm Performance: Examining Environmental Influences

ERN: Other Organizations & Markets: Decision-Making in Organizations (Topic) Pub Date : 2009-09-01 DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9310.2009.00561.x

U. Lichtenthaler

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Firms may open up their innovation processes on two dimensions. While inbound open innovation refers to the acquisition of external technology in open exploration processes, outbound open innovation describes the outward transfer of technology in open exploitation processes. Prior open innovation research has focused on the inbound dimension, whereas the outbound dimension has been relatively neglected. Therefore, this article addresses the relationship between outbound open R&D strategies and firm performance. We use data from 136 industrial firms to test four hypotheses on the moderating effects of environmental factors in the relationship between open innovation strategies and firm performance. The results show that the degree of technological turbulence, the transaction rate in technology markets, and the competitive intensity in technology markets strengthen the positive effects of outbound open innovation on firm performance. By contrast, the degree of patent protection does not facilitate successful open innovation. The results are crucially important to managers because they show under what environmental conditions open innovation strategies enhance performance.

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外向型开放式创新及其对企业绩效的影响:基于环境影响的研究

企业可以在两个维度上开放其创新过程。对内开放式创新是指在开放探索过程中获取外部技术，对外开放式创新是指在开放开发过程中向外转移技术。以往的开放式创新研究主要集中在对内维度，而对外维度相对被忽视。因此，本文研究了对外开放研发战略与企业绩效之间的关系。本文利用136家工业企业的数据，检验了环境因素在开放式创新战略与企业绩效关系中的调节作用。结果表明，技术动荡程度、技术市场交易率和技术市场竞争强度强化了外向开放式创新对企业绩效的正向影响。相比之下，专利保护的程度并不能促进开放式创新的成功。研究结果对管理者来说至关重要，因为它们显示了在什么样的环境条件下开放式创新战略能提高绩效。

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