Balance between openness and closeness of organizational boundaries in facilitating open innovation

• Autor(a) principal: Ramesh, Bharath Kalayanasundram
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.22/11461
• topic: Innovation; Open Innovation; Closed Innovation; Textile Industry; Collaboration; Portugal; Inovação; Inovação aberta; Inovação fechada; Indústria têxtil; Colaboração; Gestão Industrial

The need of open innovation emerged from the organizational worldwide competitiveness and the need of being always improving and innovating, in order to be sustainable and add value. Organizations face new challenges and must presente solutions for them. Frequently their assets inside house are not enough, but can be a precious key for joining efforts with external players and get better performance. Open innovation is about working with outside partners (namely suppliers, clients, competitors, etc) to market inside advancements and get a wellspring of outer development that can be popularized. Through the contextual analysis examination of the Clothing and Textile industry in Portugal, this dissertation aims to contribute for the reflexion of conceiving and keep up a dynamic harmony amongst openness and closeness of open innovation. Developed in INESC TEC, a private non-profit association that hosted the researcher of this dissertation, this study is mostly qualitative. By interviewing some of the top authority players from the textile sector in Portugal, the dissertation’s findings suggest that open innovation is a combined model which envolves Government, Universities, Research Centres, Associations and Enterprises (SME and big companies). It requires a symbiosis between closed and open processes, where all players should act, interact, collaborate and cooperate. This case shows how large-scale firms and SME firms tend to see open innovation and how they objectify it. It also presents one possible way of being a successful open innovator by combining open and closed features. What to share, how to value the process and its effects and what are the benefits of sharing are some of the key questions answered. This dissertation concludes that open innovation requires action and will have more impact if worked in a cluster’s approach, by all the player, even if in different levels and approaches.