Innovation and Technology Management (SIMA)

Open innovation in family firms: an analysis on high tech firms for cultural goods

Elena Casprini, Tommaso Pucci, Hans Rüdiger Kaufmann, Lorenzo Zanni

In a scenario even more characterized by collaboration among multiple actors, understanding which are those open innovation processes that influence a firm’s innovativeness is crucial. Drawing from open innovation and family business literatures, the aim of this study is twofold. First, moving from the distinction among inbound, outbound and coupled innovation processes, it investigates to what extent these processes influence a firm’s innovativeness in terms of product, process and organizational innovation. Second, it looks at whether being a family firm influences these relationships.

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