Companies have to innovate to stay competitive, and they have to collaborate with other organizations to innovate effectively. Although the benefits of "open innovation" have been described in detail before, underlying mechanisms how companies can be successful open innovators have not be understood well. A growing community of innovation management researchers started to develop different frameworks to understand open innovation in a more systematic way.This book provides a thorough examination of research conducted to date on open innovation, as well as a comprehensive overview of what will be the most important, most promising and most relevant research topics in this area during the next decade. "Open Innovation: Researching a new paradigm" (OUP 2006) was the first initiative to bring open innovation closer to the academic community. Open innovation research has since then been growing in an exponential way and research has evolved indifferent and unexpected directions. As the research field is growing, it becomes increasingly difficult for young (and even experienced scholars) to keep an overview of the most important trends in open innovation research, of the research topics that are most promising for the coming years, and of themost interesting management challenges that are emerging in organizations practicing open innovation.In the spirit of an open approach to innovation, the editors have engaged other scholars and practitioners to contribute some of their interesting insights in this book.Companies have to innovate to stay competitive, and they have to collaborate with other organizations to innovate effectively. Although the benefits of "open innovation" have been described in detail before, mechanisms underlying how companies can be successful "open innovators" have not be understood well. A growing communityof innovation management researchers started to develop different frameworks to understand open innovation in a more systematic way.

Part I: Open Innovation: Ten Years Later; 1 Henry Chesbrough, Marcel Bogers: Explicating Open Innovation: Clarifying an Emerging Paradigm for Understanding Innovation; 2 Frank Piller, Joel West: Firms, Users, and Innovation: An Interactive Model of Coupled Open Innovation; 3 Wim Vanhaverbeke, Henry Chesbrough: A Classification of Open Innovation and Open Business Models; Part II: Analyzing Open Innovation at Different Levels of Analysis; 4 Joel West: Challenges of Funding Open Innovation Platforms: Lessons from Symbian Ltd; 5 Jens Froslev Christensen: Open Innovation and Industrial Dynamics - Towards a Framework of Business Convergence; 6 Wim Vanhaverbeke, Jingshu Du, Bart Leten, Ferrie Aalders: Exploring Open Innovation at the Level of R&D Projects; Part III: New Application Fields for Open Innovation; 7 Sabine Brunswicker, Vareska van de Vrande: Exploring Open Innovation in Small and Medium - sized Enterprises; 8 Kazuhiro Asakawa, Jaeyong Song, Sang-Ji Kim: Open Innovation in Multinational Corporations: New Insights from the Global R&D Research Stream; 9 Henry Chesbrough, Alberto Di Minin: Open Social Innovation; Part IV: Managing and Organizing Open Innovation; 10 Henry Chesbrough, Roya Ghafele: Open Innovation and Intellectual Property: A Two--?Sided Market Perspective; 11 Henry Chesbrough, Chris Winter: Managing Inside - Out Open Innovation: The Case of Complex Ventures; 12 Letizia Mortara, Tim Minshall: Patterns of Implementation of OI in MNCs; 13 Nadine Roijakkers, Andy Zynga, Caroline Bishop: Getting Help from Innomediaries: What Can Innovators do to Increase Value in External Knowledge Searches?; 14 Wim Vanhaverbeke, Myriam Cloodt: Theories of the Firm and Open Innovation; Part V: Conclusions; 15 Wim Vanhaverbeke, Henry Chesbrough, Joel West: Surfing the New Wave of Open Innovation Research