Open innovation: the different pathways towards openness

Faïz Gallouj (1) , Faridah Djellal (1)

1 CLERSÉ - Centre Lillois d’Études et de Recherches Sociologiques et Économiques - UMR 8019

Innovation is a condition for the survival of businesses, companies, territories and nations. This entry builds on the concept of "open innovation" to review a number of key aspects of the innovation issue. This metaphor is used to try to report on the major contemporary openings made by experts in "innovation studies", and in so doing, a number of important concepts in this field are reviewed. The openings in question concern not only the modalities of organization and implementation of innovation as implied by the concept of open innovation but also the content and forms of innovation as well as the sectors that engage in these activities.

Domaines: Economies et finances; Gestion et management

Faïz Gallouj, Faridah Djellal. Open innovation: the different pathways towards openness. in Richardson D., Castree N., Goodchild M.F., Kobayashi A., Liu W. and Marston R.A. (eds), The International Encyclopedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment, and Technology, John Wiley and sons , 2017. ⟨hal-01710988⟩