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Open Innovation and Regional Culture—Findings from Different Industrial and Regional Settings

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  • Franz Tödtling
  • Peter Prud'homme van Reine
  • Steffen Dörhöfer

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The concept of open innovation, building upon ideas of “interactive innovation” and “innovation networking” has gained interest more recently. It argues that companies should increasingly also rely on ideas and knowledge developed externally, and create external paths for innovation. There are various mechanisms used by companies for acquiring external knowledge such as R&D and innovation collaboration with other firms and universities, relations to spin-off companies, and informal knowledge interactions within local milieux and “open innovation campuses”. Open innovation and networking are no general phenomena but depend on certain company and regional characteristics such as the respective innovation culture. The interrelationship between open innovation and regional culture has been explored by studies on regional advantage emphasizing socio-cultural aspects of opening up innovation, the literature on regional clusters, emphasizing knowledge sharing in networks, and the contributions to regional innovation systems, emphasizing the role of the institutional environment. We investigate examples of open innovation for different regions of Europe including high-tech and low-tech industries: The Southeast region of The Netherlands (high-tech systems centred on Philips and performance materials centred on DSM), Basel (Life Science industry focused on Novartis and other firms) and Styria (metal industry). We analyse the ways and mechanisms at work for open innovation, and the way these are related to regional culture. We find that open innovation strategies of companies benefit from certain regional culture characteristics and that there is no uniform “model of open innovation that applies to all types of regions”. Region-specific solutions and policies are required that account for divergent regional conditions. The research shows that we rarely find the ideal model of “uncontrolled” open innovation, but rather different forms of innovation practices that are somewhere in between the open and the closed model. Both corporate cultures and regional cultures in the regions studied still show many aspects hampering open innovation, underlining that change towards a culture facilitating open innovation takes considerable time.

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  • Franz Tödtling & Peter Prud'homme van Reine & Steffen Dörhöfer, 2011. "Open Innovation and Regional Culture—Findings from Different Industrial and Regional Settings," European Planning Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 19(11), pages 1885-1907, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:eurpls:v:19:y:2011:i:11:p:1885-1907
    DOI: 10.1080/09654313.2011.618688
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