Co-authored by Marcel Bogers. At its heart, open innovation has been about how firms can improve their use of internal and external paths for the creation and commercialization of innovations. In this chapter through a multi-level framework, prior research is used to explain how firms select one of these modes on an innovation-by-innovation basis, highlighting the importance of ambidexterity and other capabilities for managing the selection and implementation of these modes.
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