Environmental influences to Open Innovation: evidence from Russia.

摘要

The idea behind open innovation states that firms can stimulate their innovative performance by both acquiring knowledge from outside the company and using external paths to market for commercialization of non-core technologies. As more and more innovations appear as a result of interorganisational cooperation, the background for such cooperation can also have an impact on the involvement of companies into open innovation processes. Therefore, this paper proposes to analyze the environmental impact on open innovation. When examining implementation of open innovation in a regional context, however, it is important to notice that economic systems and institutions in different regions and countries differ in their support for open innovation practices. For example, the strength of IPR protection varies between countries, which may significantly affect firms' desire to buy, sell or collaboratively create new knowledge. Additionally, existence of certain market drivers should not be neglected when assessing the motivation and practices of open innovation implementation. In this paper we in particular focus on analyzing the influences imposed by operation environment to open innovation in Russia using the data collected within the recent international survey on open innovation practices.rnOur findings show that economic systems and institutions (in particular the protection of IPRs) may have substantial effects on the behavior of firms with respect to their involvement in open innovation practices as well as the decisions of whether to buy or sell technology and IP will be influenced by market dynamics. On the other hand, our results suggest that the importance of appropriability regime may differ for inbound and outbound 01, and finally we show the influence of peculiarities of national cultures upon the adoption of certain elements of open innovation model.