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Open Innovation Climate Measure: The Introduction of a Validated Scale
Author(s) -
RemnelandWikhamn Björn,
Wikhamn Wajda
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
creativity and innovation management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.148
H-Index - 60
eISSN - 1467-8691
pISSN - 0963-1690
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8691.2011.00611.x
Subject(s) - open innovation , multinational corporation , automotive industry , measure (data warehouse) , scale (ratio) , business , corporation , process (computing) , knowledge management , field (mathematics) , process management , innovation process , marketing , industrial organization , computer science , work in process , engineering , mathematics , finance , database , pure mathematics , aerospace engineering , operating system , physics , quantum mechanics
Open innovation describes how organizations open up their innovation processes for external influence and collaboration. Despite this recent, and increasingly popular, development in the industry as well as in academic literature, the field lacks valid assessment tools. As a supportive organizational climate is argued to be a crucial element for successful implementation of open innovation, we propose in this paper Open Innovation Climate Measure (OICM). This three‐dimensional assessment tool is tested in three units located in a multinational automotive corporation in the process of incorporating open innovation principles in practice.