TY - JOUR
T1 - Creativity and stakeholders' engagement in open innovation
T2 - Design for knowledge translation in technology-intensive enterprises
AU - Secundo, Giustina
AU - Del Vecchio, Pasquale
AU - Simeone, Luca
AU - Schiuma, Giovanni
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - This paper investigates the role of design as a knowledge translation mechanism for social creativity in technology-intensive enterprises’ open innovation practices of. The focus is on how design can be used to connect and combine the contribution of creativity resulting from multiple stakeholders, including entrepreneurs, university students and academics in a process in which knowledge is openly shared and transferred across the boundaries of companies’ R&D Laboratories, a university and other institutions. Adopting the research approach of grounded theory, the empirical investigation of an initiative in technology-intensive enterprises, developed from 2009 to 2016 by the Italian Conference of the University Colleges and the Italian Association of Young Entrepreneurs, is presented. The aim is to provide evidence that design artefacts represent important managerial means to support the translation of stakeholders’ creativity and knowledge into new formats to nurture open innovation. This provides relevant implications for theory building and practice.
AB - This paper investigates the role of design as a knowledge translation mechanism for social creativity in technology-intensive enterprises’ open innovation practices of. The focus is on how design can be used to connect and combine the contribution of creativity resulting from multiple stakeholders, including entrepreneurs, university students and academics in a process in which knowledge is openly shared and transferred across the boundaries of companies’ R&D Laboratories, a university and other institutions. Adopting the research approach of grounded theory, the empirical investigation of an initiative in technology-intensive enterprises, developed from 2009 to 2016 by the Italian Conference of the University Colleges and the Italian Association of Young Entrepreneurs, is presented. The aim is to provide evidence that design artefacts represent important managerial means to support the translation of stakeholders’ creativity and knowledge into new formats to nurture open innovation. This provides relevant implications for theory building and practice.
KW - Creativity
KW - Design
KW - Knowledge translation
KW - Open innovation
KW - Stakeholder
KW - Technology intensive enterprises
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jbusres.2019.02.072
DO - 10.1016/j.jbusres.2019.02.072
M3 - Journal article
VL - 119
SP - 272
EP - 282
JO - Journal of Business Research
JF - Journal of Business Research
SN - 0148-2963
ER -