Abstract : The proposed article aims to show which organizational supports contribute to successfully maintaining an open innovation model. Concretely, in this paper we set out a new approach to managing open innovation: i.e. identifying the organizational framework for integrating outside knowledge. To do this, we focus on organizational set-ups and stakeholders during the early phases of inbound open innovation. We analyze this question on the example of a major French group in the high-tech sector that has an active policy of inbound open innovation.
