WHY 'OPEN INNOVATION' IS OLD WINE IN NEW BOTTLES

By P. Trott, Dap Hartmann. International Journal of Innovation Management, 2009

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The concept of 'open innovation' has received a considerable amount of coverage within the academic literature and beyond. Much of this seems to have been without much critical analysis of the evidence. In this paper, we show how Chesbrough creates a false dichotomy by arguing that open innovation is the only alternative to a closed innovation model. We systematically examine the six principles of the open innovation concept and show how the Open Innovation paradigm has created a partial perception by describing something which is undoubtedly true in itself (the limitations of closed innovation principles), but false in conveying the wrong impression that firms today follow these principles. We hope that our examination and scrutiny of the 'open innovation' concept contributes to the debate on innovation management and helps enrich our understanding.

Subfields: Management of Technology and Innovation, Strategy and Management

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Appropriation strategies and open innovation in SMEs (2016, background): “While one might wonder about the extent to which it represents old wine on new bottles (Oakey, 2013; Trott and Hartmann, 2009), there is little doubt that the concept of ‘open innovation’ (Chesbrough, 2003a, 2003b) has enjoyed growing popularity over the last decade.”
Turning Open Innovation into Practice: Open Innovation Research through the Lens of Managers (2011, background): “The difficulty of pinpointing the essence of the term has lead to a scattered use, and some critics claim that there is little new about the phenomena (e.g., Piller and Walcher, 2006; Trott and Hartman, 2009), supported by the fact that many of Chesbrough’s classic examples are from the 1950s and fo”
Ready to Be Open? Explaining the Firm-Level Barriers to Benefiting from Openness to External Knowledge (2017, unknown): “However, there is still an important conceptual debate, and contradictory empirical results, about the actual innovation benefits of openness to external knowledge and the contextual conditions (both external and firm-specific) under which those benefits are likely to transpire (e.g. Almirall and Ca”
Explicating Open Innovation: Clarifying an Emerging Paradigm for Understanding Innovation (2014, background): “Trott and Hartmann (2009) engage the Chesbrough (2003a) book at some length,and subject it to a rhetorical analysis.”