Abstract
The demand for innovative approaches applied to productive sectors is a reality present in the circular economy and open innovation is a relatively new concept that has revolutionized the literature about innovation management. Since the concept appeared in 2003, many articles have focused on its development and application. Although some studies have connected open innovation with sustainability, the relevance of this current on the global literature about open innovation is still unidentified. In this context, this paper tries to cover this gap with a bibliometric analysis focused on the evolution of the open innovation paradigm and the relevance of sustainability in this field of research. A sample of 3087 papers published between 2003 and 2019 in the Scopus database was obtained. The analysis revealed the main topics and the most prolific journals, authors, institutions, and countries, in terms of productivity, citations, and h-indexes. Besides of these contributions, keywords analysis reveals that, in recent years, sustainability and ecosystems are decisive variables in open innovation research.
Highlights
IntroductionSince the introduction of the term open innovation in 2003 by Henry Chesbrough [4], it has gained increasing popularity among scholars in the field of innovation management due to the competitive and globalized environment in which innovation takes place [5,6]
The demand for innovative approaches applied to productive sectors is a reality present in the circular economy, and open innovation is a relatively new concept that has revolutionized the literature about innovation management [1–3]
Information and knowledge flow back and forth between the economic and social environment, which enables the company to gain new competitive advantages [7–9]. This idea of collaboration connects open innovation with sustainability, which calls for the need of a more coordinated and collaborative effort under the framework of open innovation [10–13]
Summary
Since the introduction of the term open innovation in 2003 by Henry Chesbrough [4], it has gained increasing popularity among scholars in the field of innovation management due to the competitive and globalized environment in which innovation takes place [5,6]. Companies can no longer innovate on their own, and they have to collaborate with other parties while participating in a cocreative process During this process, information and knowledge flow back and forth between the economic and social environment, which enables the company to gain new competitive advantages [7–9]. Information and knowledge flow back and forth between the economic and social environment, which enables the company to gain new competitive advantages [7–9] This idea of collaboration connects open innovation with sustainability, which calls for the need of a more coordinated and collaborative effort under the framework of open innovation [10–13]. More and more scholars are calling for further efforts to work in collaborative networks in the field of innovation, which will guide firms towards enhancing sustainability and getting positive results when facing sustainability problems [10–12,14–20]
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