Conclusion

Abstract

The academic literature of open innovation, corporate venturing, radical innovation, science park literature, and corporate entrepreneurship used to lack a structured taxonomy regarding the kind of structures and approaches that incumbent companies can use in order to deal with business model threatening open innovation developments —threats that are often facilitated by start-up companies. The focus of this dissertation is on the incumbents’ in-house solutions and do not include cooperation with third-party providers and activities that are one-time events or not organized as lone-standing business units or daughter companies.