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*extended submission deadline: 1 November 2021* Dear Colleagues, Please kindly find below a final reminder of the SI CfPs in TECHNOVATION Call for Papers: Special Issue: “The limits of open innovation: Failures, risks, and costs in open innovation practice and theory” *Technovation* *The International Journal of Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Technology Management* Guest editors: *Marina Dabić** University of Zagreb, Faculty of Economics and Business, Croatia Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom *Tugrul Daim* Portland State University, USA *Marcel Bogers* Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands University of Copenhagen, Denmark University of California, Berkeley, USA *Anne-Laure Mention* RMIT University, Australia Tampere University, Finland Singapore University of Social Sciences, Singapore * Corresponding Guest Editor. *Call for Papers* *The limits of open innovation: Failures, risks, and costs in open innovation practice and theory* *Deadline for submission:* *Starting: 1 March 2021* *Closing: 1 November 2021* While much has been said regarding the possible benefits of an open approach to innovation, we still lack a clear understanding of the downsides of openness, the limits of openness and its interplay with failure in innovation ventures. This can lead to detrimental effects, such as differences in failure acceptance culture, a lower commitment to innovation management, and a lack of personal, organisational, project-related, marketing, consumer-based, or social prerequisites. At the same time, the growing complexity of engineering and technological advancements, along with the increased responsiveness of society when it comes to open innovation, represents new challenges for open innovation practices and research related to failures within the innovation process. Disciplines such as economics, business, law, engineering, sociology, psychology, and even mathematics and other sciences must interact to design efficient and safe open innovation strategies, structures and processes. Learning from failures or predicting possible risks or costs requires multi-disciplinary and multi-scale methods and can decrease the likelihood of decision errors and, eventually, inhibit firm performance. For example, the influence of the distance between operations in multinational corporations and the costs of coordinating the geographically dispersed activities of open innovation teams are likely to be considerably more challenging. Furthermore, bringing in other perspectives and new levels or units of analysis will help to facilitate a better understanding of when open innovation will succeed and when it will fail, offering important insights into future practices and theoretical developments. Open innovation describes a distributed innovation process in which organization need to manage knowledge inflows and outflows to accelerate their innovation processes. However, emerging research has investigated some of the limits of open innovation, for example, in terms of decreasing returns to openness, cost-increasing effects, deviant co-creation, and the negative impact of openness on the speed and cost of product development projects. Nevertheless, our understanding of the exact limits of open innovation is still limited. Better understanding the limits of open innovation - through failures, risks, costs, and lack of trust - is necessary in order to obtain a better understanding of the contingencies of open innovation, thereby informing related theories and practices. For this Special Issue, we envision articles possibly related to (but not at all limited to) any of the following questions: · What are limits or boundaries of open innovation practice at different levels of analysis? How could these limits be measured? · How does risk evolve? What are the reasons for failure in firms' open global operations? · What role does risk play in open innovation processes and practices? · Do different types of firms - for example, in terms of their nationality, ownership, and governance - approach and respond to open innovation risks and failures in the same manner? · How can we more accurately measure risks or possible collapses in global open innovation practices? · How could universities and science provide tools to help overcome risks in open innovation? · What role does failure in open innovation play in the subsequent success of innovation projects? How do organizations manage false positive and/or false-negative errors in open innovation projects? In what way does project organization communication foster the failure of open innovation projects? · What are the organizational, managerial, and/or behavioural attributes of open innovation failures, risks, and costs? · What is the influence of environmental, political, and technological changes on open innovation failure? · What are the drivers of failure in firms' open innovation activity systems, global value chains, and relationships? · How do we recognise lack of trust in relationships between multilevel dimensions of complexity in open innovation practice? · How can the lack of innovation supervision and organisational requirements lead to unmitigated failure in open innovation projects? We invite submissions that are either conceptual or empirical. No specific theoretical or methodological approaches are preferred. High-quality conceptual, qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods submissions are welcome. Only original unpublished manuscripts can be submitted, according to the 'Guide for Authors' published on the *Technovation* website. Please mention the name of the Special Issue in your cover letter. All manuscripts will be peer-reviewed following the established policies and procedures of the journal. The final papers will be selected for publication depending on the results of the peer-review process and the reviews of the Guest Editors. *Expected date of publication: 2022* A paper feedback session at: *IEEE- TEMSCON Spring conference, Dubrovnik, 17th May, Croatia & *World Open innovation conference WOIC 2021*.* The guest editors welcome informal inquiries and can be contacted on: *Marina Dabić* The University of Zagreb, Faculty of Economics and Business, Croatia and Nottingham Trent University, the United Kingdom [log in to unmask] [log in to unmask] *References* Alassaf, D.; Dabic, M., Daim, T., & Shifrer, D. (2020). 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