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Would you please distribute the following Call For Papers throughout the
Academy of International Business emailing list for the upcoming Special
Issue in the Journal of Innovation & Knowledge.

 

Warmest regards,

 

Aurora A.C. Teixeira

Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto (Portugal)

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Dear colleagues 

 

João Ferreira (Universidade da Beira Interior;
<http://www.dge.ubi.pt/jferreira/> http://www.dge.ubi.pt/jferreira/) and
Aurora Teixeira (Universidade do Porto; INESC TEC;
<http://www.fep.up.pt/docentes/ateixeira/>
http://www.fep.up.pt/docentes/ateixeira/) are organizing a special issue on
“Open Innovation and Knowledge for Fostering Business Ecosystems”, to be
published (in 2018) in the Journal of Innovation & Knowledge, from Elsevier,
indexed in Web of Science™ Core Collection, Emerging Sources Citation Index
(ESCI).

 

The deadline for papers submission is 31st September 2017. 

 

Below you can find the details about the Special Issue.

 

We hope you will consider submitting a paper to this Special Issue.

 

The Guest Editors 

João Ferreira and Aurora Teixeira

 

 


 
<http://www.elsevier.es/en-revista-journal-innovation-knowledge-376-normas-p
ublicacion> 

 

CALL FOR PAPERS

 

Journal of Innovation & Knowledge (JIK) Special Issue on:

Open Innovation and Knowledge for Fostering Business Ecosystems (SI OI&K)

 

Submission deadline: 31 September 2017

 

 

 

 

Guest Editors:

 

João J. Ferreira (University of Beira Interior, Portugal)

Aurora Teixeira (University of Porto, Portugal)

 

 

 

Backgound

 

 

The paradigm of open innovation has received substantial attention from
academics and practitioners since it was first popularized by Chesbrough
(2003) as a counterpoint to the traditional ‘closed innovation’ view. Open
innovation is based on a strong of antecedent knowledge  developed in the
innovation management literature, including approaches related to R&D
externalization, outsourcing, inter-firm collaboration and
organization-environmental interaction (Huizingh, 2011; Lazzarotti et al.,
2017). In essence, open innovation approaches suggest that the generation of
innovative outputs is facilitated by more openness towards external sources
of knowledge. This openness encourages the fluidity of knowledge and
information flows between firms (Chesbrough, 2006; Crescenzi et al., 2016;
Shearmur & Doloreux, 2016).

More particularly, research should shed new light on how open innovation and
knowledge may stimulate performance of business ecosystems. In this Special
Issue a synergistic portfolio of papers will be selected to illuminate new
research opportunities and challenges for open innovation and knowledge
management academics and decision makers. Innovation is traditionally
considered to be the primary driving force of progress and prosperity.
Within innovation management research and practice there is some significant
understanding of this standing but less is known about how open innovation
and knowledge (spillovers) interact with business ecosystems.

Networks enable partners to create and share knowledge. Some literature on
the knowledge transfer (Battistella et al., 2016; Giudice et al., 2016;
Ferreira et al., 2013; Ferreira et al., 2016; Ferreira et al., 2017;)
provide insight in how firms interact with their environment to benefit from
open innovation: interorganizational networks as locus of innovation (Powell
et al., 1996), explorative and exploitative network ties (March, 1991;
Vanhverbeke, 2006). Open innovation benefits from building connections that
are wide and deep and from finding the right balance between these
connections.

Empirical evidence shows that firms implementing open innovation need a
number of open networking capabilities (absorptive capacity, multiplicative
capacity and relational capacity),  with suppliers, customers, higher
education institutions, competitors, and others (Gassmann et al., 2010;
Huston and Sakkab, 2006; Perkmann and Walsh, 2007). 

The emergence of the open innovation approach has been deeply influenced by
changes in our thinking about the essential importance of firms’ internal
and external knowledge environments. More mobility of skilled workforces and
more ready transmission of knowledge by information technology enlarged the
occurrence of spillovers between firms and their external environments.
University-industry cooperation and the growth of Triple Helix relationships
involving firms, universities, and government have gradually become the
standard (Crescenzi et al., 2016; D’Este and Iammarino, 2010; Leydesdorff
and Etzkowitz, 1998). By cooperating region­ally, nationally and
internationally, business ecosystems can to improve their strengths, combine
skills, and create diverse applications for newly discovered solutions
(creativity) sharing their resources and knowledge capabilities with other
regions in joint R&D partnerships, promoting entrepreneurial and innovative
systems, developing smart solutions and promoting the renewal and growth of
business. 

How to accomplish this strategic objective involves huge challenge and a
deeper understanding of the role of several stakeholders involved on this
process. 

 

Aims and Possible Topics

 

The aim of this Special Issue is to assemble high quality papers that deepen
and boost understanding the role of open innovation and knowledge on
business ecosystems development.  To achieve this aim, the special issue
invites conceptual and/or empirical papers, presenting cutting edge research
on open Innovation and knowledge at micro, meso and macro level. Papers that
examine trends and initiatives, employ original methodologies, and offer
interesting empirical insights and theoretical contribution related to open
innovation and knowledge driven business ecosystems are very welcome. 

 

Possible topics include, but are not limited, to the following lines of
inquiry:

 

*         How may business ecosystem inspire and support technology
entrepreneurs and managers to innovate?

*         How may knowledge and creative skills be integrated with
technology solutions to create high-value innovations?

*         How may open innovation act as an instrument to support
organizational learning mechanisms are useful in business ecosystem?

*         What are the main impacts derived from cooperation and coopetition
among firms?

*         Is there a relation between open innovation and the
internationalization stance of businesses ecosystems?

*         How open innovation is devised and influenced by firms’
internationalization strategies and performance?

*         How may policy and public interventions favour these open
relationships?

*         What are the main impacts of Science and technology parks to
promote open Innovation?

 

Journal of Innovation & Knowledge (JIK) publishes high-quality empirical
papers and can consider good conceptual and theoretical papers, but they
should not mainly be descriptive. Please see the JIK editorial aims on the
<http://www.elsevier.es/en-revista-journal-innovation-knowledge-376>
journal’s website.

 

 

Submission Process

To be considered for publication, manuscripts must be sent electronically to
the Guest Editors before 31 September 2017. Please submit manuscripts as
e-mail attachments to the Guest Editors ( <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
[log in to unmask] and [log in to unmask]) as soon as possible for
preliminary consideration.

All submitted manuscripts should be prepared in accordance to the
<http://www.elsevier.es/en-revista-journal-innovation-knowledge-376-normas-p
ublicacion> JIK authors’
guidelines.http://www.elsevier.es/en-revista-journal-innovation-knowledge-37
6-normas-publicacionhttp://www.elsevier.es/en-revista-journal-innovation-kno
wledge-376-normas-publicacion

Selected authors will then be invited to submit their paper to the JIK
electronic submission system. The Special Issue editors plan to publish this
Special Issue at beginning of 2018. 

 

 

References

 

Battistella, C., De Toni, A.F. & Pillon, R (2016). Inter-organisational
technology/knowledge transfer: a framework from critical literature review,
Journal of Technology Transfer, 41(5), 1195 – 1234.

Chesbrough, H. (2003). The era of open innovation. MIT Sloan Management
Review, 44, pp. 35–41.

Chesbrough, H. (2006). Open Business Models: How to Thrive in the New
Innovation Landscape. Harvard Business School Press. Boston.

Crescenzi, R., Nathan, M., Rodríguez-Pose, A. (2016). Do inventors talk to
strangers? On proximity and collaborativeknowledge creation, Research
Policy, 45: 177-194.

D’Este, P., & Iammarino, S. (2010). The spatial profile of
university–business research partnerships. Papers in Regional Science, 89,
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Ferreira, J., Dana, L., & Ratten, V. (eds.) (2017). Knowledge
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Ferreira, J., Raposo, M., Rutten, R., & Varga, A. (eds.) (2013).
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Ferreira, J., Ratten, V., & Dana, L-P. (eds.) (2016). Knowledge
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Gassmann, O., Enkel, E., & Chesbrough, H. (2010). The future of open
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Giudice, M., Carayannis, E., & Maggioni, V. (2016). Global knowledge
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Shearmur, R., & Doloreux, D. (2016). How open innovation processes vary
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Researching a new paradigm (pp. 205-219), Oxford: Oxford University Press.

 

 

 


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