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What is the Degree of Inbound Open Innovation in Spanish Firms?: An Exploratory Analysis

What is the Degree of Inbound Open Innovation in Spanish Firms?: An Exploratory Analysis

Marta Ortiz-de-Urbina-Criado
Copyright: © 2012 |Pages: 18
ISBN13: 9781613503416|ISBN10: 1613503415|EISBN13: 9781613503423
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61350-341-6.ch005
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Ortiz-de-Urbina-Criado, Marta. "What is the Degree of Inbound Open Innovation in Spanish Firms?: An Exploratory Analysis." Open Innovation in Firms and Public Administrations: Technologies for Value Creation, edited by Carmen de Pablos Heredero and David López, IGI Global, 2012, pp. 79-96. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-61350-341-6.ch005

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Ortiz-de-Urbina-Criado, M. (2012). What is the Degree of Inbound Open Innovation in Spanish Firms?: An Exploratory Analysis. In C. de Pablos Heredero & D. López (Eds.), Open Innovation in Firms and Public Administrations: Technologies for Value Creation (pp. 79-96). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-61350-341-6.ch005

Chicago

Ortiz-de-Urbina-Criado, Marta. "What is the Degree of Inbound Open Innovation in Spanish Firms?: An Exploratory Analysis." In Open Innovation in Firms and Public Administrations: Technologies for Value Creation, edited by Carmen de Pablos Heredero and David López, 79-96. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2012. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-61350-341-6.ch005

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Abstract

The aim of this chapter is to examine the degree to which Spanish firms follow the open innovation paradigm regarding the acquisition of technology assets. The research question is what is the degree of Inbound Open Innovation in Spanish Firms? To answer that question, the author has selected a sample of small, medium and large-size Spanish firms and they include firms from the industrial and service sectors. A two-step cluster analysis has been developed to classify firms in five groups and they have analyzed the differences between the firms included in each cluster in relation to the firms’ characteristics and innovation behavior. The author has find that firms with higher degrees of Inbound Open Innovation are the most innovative in terms of product and process, they are the firms that buy more R&D services and usually cooperate with other organizations to develop R&D and innovation activities.

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