Open Innovation Markets

Purpose and goal

In order to develop and survive companies will be forced to open up their innovation activities for new forms of partnerships with external actors in innovation systems. The project aimed to study how two today relatively separated innovation processes in small and large companies can be made to co-operate and this has been conducted in Sweden and internationally. The project also aimed to further develop theory and analysis methods for Open Innovation markets, which are presented in research articles, a book, and on conferences, seminars and workshops for firms and the public sector.

Expected results and effects

The goal was to analyze existing knowledge about how ´co-creation´ can be effectively done in an Open Innovation market and to further develop and standardize a tested concept. The project analyzed a large number of concepts both Swedish and international and organized these in a concept portfolio that clarifies suitable areas of application. The portfolio is accompanied by common learning from the studied concepts concerning implementation. Focused dissemination activities at national level are discussed but implementation is outside the scope of the project.

Planned approach and implementation

Involved organizations are Chalmers University of Technology as coordinator, two large firms, Volvo and Ericsson, 4 smaller firms, Atvis, BOID, Informasic and Qualisys, as well as Johanneberg´s and Lindholmen´s Science Parks, Swedish Incubators & Science Parks (SISP) and Research Institutes of Sweden (RISE). The project has performed interview-based comparative analyzes of a large number of Swedish and international actors (companies and science parks) in Europe and USA and has also analyzed activities within the challenge driven development project ElectriCity.