Call for papers for a special issue on pushing the boundaries of open and user innovation

摘要

Open and user innovation activities, such as crowdsourcing and crowdfunding, alliance building, selective revealing, and internal and external corporate venturing are used increasingly by incumbent firms and start-ups. Thus, both top managers (e.g., CEOs, CIO, COOs, CTOs, etc.) and innovation professionals are debating how their organisations should best interact with its external environment. These developments take place in parallel to the breath-taking speed of technological advancement and the concomitant need to understand and deploy digital technologies such as machine learning and artificial intelligence in the context of open and user innovation activities. Finally, these technologies may hold the key for entirely new forms of organising to which user and open innovation are crucial, such as innovation ecosystems, or forms of user-led and user-centred organising, which may potentially function even without the involvement of firms.