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Open Innovation in an International Perspective: How to Organize for (Radical) Product Innovation

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In a world of increasing global knowledge flows with better potential access to domestic as well as international external R&D providers and collaboration partners, innovation management is increasingly challenged to access and relate to the right sources, for the right knowledge at the right time, to ensure long-term innovative performance. Identifying providers and collaborating with appropriate partners that possess heterogeneous and tacit knowledge are truly challenging tasks for even the most experienced innovation managers.

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  1. Department of Marketing & Management, Centre for Integrative Innovation Management, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark

    Mette Præst Knudsen & Tina Lundø Tranekjer

  2. Department of Economics and Business Administration, Friedrich Schiller University Jena and Marketing & Management, Centre for Integrative Innovation Management, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark

    Uwe Cantner

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Knudsen, M.P., Tranekjer, T.L., Cantner, U. (2017). Open Innovation in an International Perspective: How to Organize for (Radical) Product Innovation. In: Brem, A., Viardot, E. (eds) Revolution of Innovation Management. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95123-9_2

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