THE MEASUREMENT OF OPEN INNOVATION WITH ITS EFFECT ON THE PERFORMANCE IN KOREA

摘要

While the empirical studies in Korea have investigated the factors and their effects on influencing the open innovation, there are not only little studies to investigate the effect of open innovation on the innovative and general performance but also little new approach to measure open innovation itself. Additionally, most of them have been based on the Korea Innovation Survey, so that they could not identify more information specific to the open innovation, for instance, the direction of openness and usage frequency of information and collaboration sources. Three new approaches are attempted for exploring the effect of open innovation on the performance. The first one is to introduce new open innovation measurement by adding new concepts of the usage frequency of the knowledge sources. Secondary, we measured the direction of the open innovation and its effect on the performance. Finally, we compared the open innovation between Korea and US as a preliminary study. This study makes three contributions to the open innovation. First, this paper provides new empirical evidence of the positive effect of openness and direction on the performance with broader knowledge than the prior studies. Second, this study extends the territories of open innovation study by providing comparative study between two countries.