Open Innovation: Unveiling the Power of the Human Element

What is the profile to excel and lead in an open innovation environment, within and across organizational boundaries? What are the organizational ingredients and ways contributing to the creation of the right corporate open innovation environment and culture, within and across organizational boundaries? What is the role of organizational culture as a catalyst for adopting open innovation practices? What kinds of educational and training curricula for open innovation need to be developed and put in place? By unveiling the peculiarities of the dynamic interplay between the individual and organizational spectrums, this volume, seeks to provide relevant answers to these questions, among others. Readers are invited to embark on a fascinating and challenging journey towards one of the darkest of sides and mysteries of open innovation: the human element.

Open Innovation: Unveiling the Power of the Human Element brings together the latest thinking from members of the academic community, industry leaders and practitioners, along with, policy-makers. By adopting a variety of research methods, this volume provides relevant up-to-speed but at the same time down-to-earth invaluable insights, foresights and solutions in relation to the role and the positioning of the human element within the participatory and connection-driven DNA of the open innovation paradigm.

Contents:

• Unbundling the Human Element in Open Innovation: Views, Arguments and Perspectives (Dimitrios Salampasis and Anne-Laure Mention)
• How Do Human Resource Practices Strengthen Open Innovation? An Exploratory Analysis (Svenja Paul, Nadine Roijakkers and Letizia Mortara)
• Open Innovation and Culture: A System Dynamics Model (Justyna Dabrowska and Irina Fiegenbaum)
• Impediments and Hurdles for Excelling the Human Element in Open Innovation and the Organizational Readiness and Barriers (Bjoern Engels and Claudia Costa)
• The Human Side of Open Innovation: Traits, Abilities and Motivational Factors to Successfully Manage Open Innovation Projects (Volker Lippitz, Benjamin Thedieck and Stefan Jost)
• The Human Side of Open Innovation: What Room for Training and Development? (Riccardo Sartori, Andrea Ceschi and Arianna Costantini)
• CEOs in Innovative SMEs: Open Innovation Initiators and Facilitators (Joon Mo Ahn, Tim Minshall and Letizia Mortara)
• Executive Management and Enterprise Readiness for Entrepreneurship-Driven Open Innovation (Patrick Crasson)
• The Influence of International Knowledge and Skills and Firm Internationalization on Open Innovation (Maja Bašić)
• How Entrepreneurs from Incubated Start-ups Adapt to Open Innovation: An Illustration through Romanian Business Incubators (Simona Adela Maria Grama)
• Unveiling Human-Related Challenges in a Convergence-Driven Open Innovation Project: Evidences from an Action Research Case (Zorica Zagorac-Uremovic, Ana Procopio Schön, Markus Spiegel and Christian Marxt)
• Motivations to Contribute Financially to Crowdfunding Projects (Krystallia Moysidou)
• Human, Organizational and Societal Aspects of Workplace Bullying in Times of Open Innovation: Understanding, Organizing, and Prevention (Maria-Christina Tsiama)

Readership: Executives, practitioners, policy makers, students and researchers in the field of innovation.
Key Features:

• Provides a diversified content with perspectives both from academics and practitioners
• The first of its kind to explicitly delve and focus on the multidimensional and multidisciplinary human aspect of open innovation
• Unveils the peculiarities of the dynamic interplay between the organizational and individual spectrum