Inbound Open Innovation Activities in High‐Tech SMEs: The Impact on Innovation Performance

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A review of literature on open innovation in small and medium-sized enterprises (2015, background): “Some scholars argue that SMEs can achieve greater benefits from the open innovation than larger firms because of their less bureaucracy, increased willingness to take risks, and faster ability to react to changing environments (Parida et al. 2012).”
The Effect Of Inbound, Outbound And Coupled Innovation On Performance (2012, background): “Indeed, while our results confirm that inbound practices are more related to innovation performances, with very few exceptions (Fey and Birkinshaw, 2005; Huang and Rice, 2009; Inauen and Schenker-Wicki, 2011), the majority of OI works revised empirically prove that inbound practices are positively r”
Open innovation: a new classification and its impact on firm performance in innovative SMEs (2015, background): “Until now, research focus has been on OI proxies (rather than OI itself), such as information search breadth and depth (e.g., Laursen and Salter, 2006), technology sourcing and scouting (e.g., Parida et al., 2012) or inter-organisational networks (e.g., Lasagni, 2012; Zeng et al., 2010).”