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Open Innovation Adoption in Clusters: The Portuguese Case

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Given the lack of academic research linking open innovation and clusters literature, this chapter analyzes open innovation adoption in clusters based on the Portuguese case. This chapter stretches the notion of “open innovation”, usually deployed in innovation management studies, and takes it as a phenomenon relevant at the meso sectoral/regional scale. This research draws on a Delphi questionnaire launched to the Portuguese clusters, identifying the main barriers for the development of open innovation activities. The factors that hinder the use of open innovation in clusters are related to internal problems (e.g. management capabilities) and external factors (e.g. funding access). This chapter also allows the understanding of the importance of belonging to a cluster for the pursuit of open innovation activities and contributes to a debate on the need to develop more “pro-openness” innovation policies.

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  1. Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL), Lisboa, Portugal

    António Bob Santos

  2. Agência Nacional de Inovação (ANI), Porto, Portugal

    António Bob Santos

  3. Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL), Lisboa, Portugal

    Sandro Mendonça

  4. Business Research Unit (BRU-IUL), Lisboa, Portugal

    Sandro Mendonça

  5. UECE (ISEG, Universiy of Lisbon), Lisboa, Portugal

    Sandro Mendonça

  6. Obercom (Observatório da Comunicação), Lisboa, Portugal

    Sandro Mendonça

  7. SPRU (University of Sussex), Brighton, UK

    Sandro Mendonça

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    Sara Paulina De Oliveira Monteiro

  2. Department of Information Systems and Technology Management, School of Business George Washington University, Washington, District of Columbia, USA

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Santos, A.B., Mendonça, S. (2017). Open Innovation Adoption in Clusters: The Portuguese Case. In: De Oliveira Monteiro, S., Carayannis, E. (eds) The Quadruple Innovation Helix Nexus. Palgrave Studies in Democracy, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship for Growth. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-55577-9_9

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