Understanding Open Innovation in Large Firms: A Co-citation Bibliometric Analysis

Abstract

The open innovation has received increased attention from the academic and practitioner community as a result of more collaborative approaches to innovation together with rapid advances in the application of internet technologies in support of innovation activities. There have been significant developments in this field since 2003 first time Chesbrough coined open innovation term and so the aim of this paper is to review the extant research to explore open innovation in large firm and map the current knowledge. The review has been conducted using co-citation analysis. This is the first time that a quantitative review method has been used to analysis this research area and it provides an opportunity to bring new insights to complement previous qualitative reviews. This paper makes a contribution to understand the key points of open innovation and the implementation in large firm.