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Dual boundary spanning: Toward a typology of outside‐in open innovation in the Canadian context
Author(s) -
LiYing Jason
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
canadian journal of administrative sciences / revue canadienne des sciences de l'administration
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.347
H-Index - 48
eISSN - 1936-4490
pISSN - 0825-0383
DOI - 10.1002/cjas.1428
Subject(s) - typology , boundary spanning , novelty , extant taxon , open innovation , openness to experience , context (archaeology) , knowledge management , innovation management , dual (grammatical number) , boundary (topology) , business , economic geography , sociology , computer science , geography , psychology , mathematics , social psychology , art , mathematical analysis , literature , archaeology , anthropology , evolutionary biology , biology
The extant literature runs short in understanding openness of innovation regarding and the different pathways along which internal and external knowledge resources can be combined. This study proposes a unique typology for outside‐in innovations based on two distinct ways of boundary spanning: whether an innovation idea is created internally or externally and whether an innovation process relies on external knowledge resources. This yields four possible types of innovation, which represent the nuanced variation of outside‐in innovations. Using historical data from Canada for 1945–1980, this study unveils different implications of these innovation types for different levels of innovation novelty. Copyright © 2016 ASAC. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.