EXAMINING DRIVERS OF COLLABORATIVE INBOUND OPEN INNOVATION: EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FROM AUSTRALIAN FIRMS

摘要

Knowledge-based competition is leading to collaboration with partners and evenncompetitors as firms pursue appropriate knowledge for innovation which has become anstrategic imperative. Inbound open innovation helps increase the innovativeness of the firmnby monitoring the operating environment and enabling it to source knowledge from collaborativenpartners. On the basis of in-depth interviews with senior managers and thenknowledge-based view of the firm, this study examines the extent to which inbound openninnovation activities contribute to collaborative innovation. Then, using a sample of 224nsurveys representative of a cross-section of medium to large firms involved in collaborativenventures, the theoretical model is empirically examined. The results show that collaborativencreativity, learning and knowledge stock are critical core inputs of collaborativeninnovation, with the support of formal coordination mechanisms and internal searchnprocesses, such as structural centralisation, formality and absorptive capacity