Open Innovation in the Visegrád Four Countries: A Literature Review

The aim of the paper is to analyze and systematize existing body of literature concerning the concept of Open Innovation in the Visegrád Four countries. The extent of research papers and articles focusing specifically on the Open Innovation in the V4 countries is rather limited. They tend to be included in the larger research samples of the EU member states which limits the possibility of their comparison with other European or non-European countries. 11 sub-topics of the Open Innovation were identified in 36 studies which were analyzed for the purpose of this paper. Nevertheless, it is rather difficult to establish differences or similiarities of the Open Innovation approach among all of the V4 countries because overlapping of the research topics in different studies is not very significant. Further research might be therefore focused on the comparison of different Open Innovation sub-topics across all four Visegrád countries.