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Survival of Fittest: Open Innovation and Product Development Linkages

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Human Interaction, Emerging Technologies and Future Systems V (IHIET 2021)

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Open innovation is becoming the frontline strategy to develop new products and services in most R&D based firms. This paper focuses on the strategies of the companies which protect their R&D capabilities and their effect on the open innovation process in new product development. The theoretical framework of this research was extracted from open innovation, product development and management science literature. Data from 20 countries have been collected from 60 open innovation and intensive R&D dependent firms. Statistical techniques were used to analyse the data. The data analysis showed five protectionist motives involved in open innovation-based product development between companies. The results provided the validation of the theoretical framework and explored these motives based on managers' feedback. The study implies strong linkages between open innovation, product development and protectionist motives of companies.

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  1. LAB University of Applied Sciences, Mukkulankatu 19, 15210, Lahti, Finland

    Afnan Zafar

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    Redha Taiar

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Zafar, A. (2022). Survival of Fittest: Open Innovation and Product Development Linkages. In: Ahram, T., Taiar, R. (eds) Human Interaction, Emerging Technologies and Future Systems V. IHIET 2021. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 319. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85540-6_145

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