Tackling Societal Challenges with Open Innovation
Journal article, 2021
Open innovation includes external knowledge sources and paths to market as complements to internal innovation processes. Open innovation has to date been driven largely by business objectives, but the imperative of social challenges has turned attention to the broader set of goals to which open innovation is relevant. In this paper, we discuss how open innovation can be deployed to address societal challenges-as well as the tradeoffs and tensions that arise as a result. Against this background we introduce the papers published in this Special Section, which were originally presented at the sixth annual World Open Innovation Conference.
innovation
collaborative innovation
social innovation
open innovation
green business
Author
Anita McGahan
University of Toronto
Marcel Bogers
University of Copenhagen
Eindhoven University of Technology
University of California
Henry Chesbrough
Luiss Guido Carli University
University of California
Marcus Holgersson
Chalmers, Technology Management and Economics, Entrepreneurship and Strategy
California Management Review
0008-1256 (ISSN) 21628564 (eISSN)
Vol. 63 2 49-61Subject Categories (SSIF 2011)
Business Administration
DOI
10.1177/0008125620973713