Overcoming organizational obstacles to open innovation success

Open innovation is a powerful organizational concept that has been used extensively to explain various phenomena within the area of innovation management. There are, however, different organizational obstacles that have the potential to limit firms' ability to apply the principles of open innovation successfully, for example, the link with corporate and business-level strategies might be unclear or missing, and different capabilities and management competencies are needed to efficiently implement the principles of open innovation compared to closed innovation. Therefore, this chapter will further explore internal-organizational-level obstacles--which tend to support or hinder the successful implementation of open innovation practices.