Attitudes to Externally Organising Knowledge Management Tasks: A Review, Reconsideration and Extension of the NIH Syndrome

By Ulrich Lichtenthaler, Holger Ernst. 2006

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Advancing a Typology of Open Innovation (2010, background): “Also, the often cited “Not Invented Here” syndrome plays a substantial role in the internal resistance to external innovation solutions (Lichtenthaler and Ernst, 2006).”
Innovation intermediaries and collaboration: Knowledge–based practices and internal value creation (2018, unknown): “By being able to identify knowledge gaps through mapping current knowledge and having the capability and flexibility to integrate new with existing knowledge are key prerequisites for knowledge advancement (Lichtenthaler and Ernst, 2006).”
Open innovation in SMEs : trends, motives and management challenges (2009, background): “Although focused on the external acquisition of knowledge, its underlying antecedents are also applicable to technology exploitation, leading to the ‘only-used-here’ (OUH) syndrome (Lichtenthaler and Ernst, 2006).”
Open Innovation in Practice: An Analysis of Strategic Approaches to Technology Transactions (2008, background): “Thus, firms will decide to develop particular capabilities to internally carry out technology management tasks, or they will develop different capabilities to successfully realize technology transactions with the environment [10], [34], [42], [86], [87].”
Transfer mechanisms and knowledge transfer: The cooperative competency perspective (2014, background): “This syndrome entails the rejection of the use of external knowledge, as it has not been createdwithin thefirm, considering it, amongother things, as a threat (e.g., Katz & Allen, 1982; Lichtenthaler & Ernst, 2006).”
Connecting local entrepreneurial ecosystems to global innovation networks: open innovation, double networks and knowledge integration (2011, background): “These new approaches respond, in part, to the isolation of R&D within ‘silos’ or ‘stovepipes’ and the resistance to ideas ‘not invented here’ (NIH), which have been recurrent problems for management of R&D (Lichtenthaler and Ernst, 2006).”
How do large multinational companies implement open innovation (2011, background): “Of the several possible syndromes affecting OI implementers (Lichtenthaler and Ernst, 2006), the Not-Invented-Here (NIH) – the attitude against adopting external ideas (Katz and Allen, 1982; Schein, 1992) – is the most mentioned across the OI literature.”