CFP: Open Innovation, Closed Societies

International Journal of Innovation and Sustainable Development (IJISD)
Call For papers
Special Issue on: "Open Innovation, Closed Societies"

Guest Editors:
Steffen Roth, Bern University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland and Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany
Jari Kaivo-Oja, Turku School of Economics, Finland and National Academy of Sciences, Finland
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The contradiction between the vision of OI and the reality of social borders thus provokes the central questions to be discussed:

• What impact do political, economic, legal, educational, scientific, or further social borders have on both intra-national and transnational OI projects?
• What are the ethical dimensions of open innovation in general and transnational OI in particular (keywords: working consumer, prosumer)?
• What forms of international OI and what corresponding strategies do we know both from literature and from case studies?
• What opportunities does transnational OI provide for the establishing international justice in terms of a more balanced access to resources, competencies, and markets?
• What borders do OI strategies have to cross at the intra-national level? In what spheres of society does open innovation (not) work successfully? Are OI projects closed for certain organisational forms, professional groups, ages, or genders?

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Important Dates

• Deadline for submission of manuscripts: 30 September, 2009
• Communication of peer review to authors: 15 January, 2010
• Deadline for revised manuscripts: 31 March, 2010

Full CFP here

CFP: Open Innovation and supply chain

International Journal of Innovation Management:

Special Issue on Open Innovation and the Integration of Suppliers

Excerpts below, the full PDF is here.

Guest Editor
Dr. Alexander Brem,
School of Business and Economics, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, and
VEND consulting GmbH, Nuremberg

Background
Open innovation describes an innovation paradigm shift from a closed to an open innovation model (Chesbrough, 2003). With this idea, the term open innovation became one of the most common used buzzwords of recent years, with a plethora of research.
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Hardly anybody outside a company knows its products and processes better than its suppliers (Bessant, 2003; Petersen et al., 2003; von Hippel, 1995). Research confirms that intensive integration of suppliers in the value creation process positively influences the success of the company, particularly in highly competitive industries (Wingert, 1997). This is a result of the progressing reduction in the depth of value creation of manufacturers and the increasing transfer of know-how towards the suppliers. In multilevel business-to-business relationships, the suppliers often have the best or the only access and comprehensive knowledge about the end users (Groher, 2003).
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In this context, theoretical and conceptual papers on supplier integration and challenges on the firm level are welcome. Empirical studies that feature examples and results of supplier integration are encouraged, as well as papers on success factors and risks. Comparative studies that examine similarities and differences between different sectors and countries are also welcome.

Important Dates
1-2 page abstract 1st November 2009
Submission of manuscripts 1st February 2010
Notification to authors 15th March 2010
Final drafts of papers 1st June 2010
Publication Autumn 2010

You are invited to contact the guest editor to discuss the topic of a possible paper in advance: …

I am posting the CFP in the interests of completeness and as a service to my readers. However, there is one part of the CFP with which I’d violently disagree:

However, the concept has been criticized for being too prescriptive and for offering little new to innovation research or practice (Trott and Hartmann, 2009). For instance, the lead-user concept (von Hippel 1988, 2005) became one of the most important trends in innovation management in the last ten years, but is open innovation any more than the lead-user concept (see IJIM Special Issue on User Innovation, 2008, 12(3))?

This is a naïve and simplistic comparison of the literatures. Just as open innovation doesn’t subsume all user innovation, user innovation doesn’t subsume all open innovation.

Regular readers of this blog know that I have been working hard to tease out the similarities and differences of these two literatures, including presentations at OUI 2009, UOI 2008 and EURAM 2007. I hope to have a more detailed analysis (from my evolving research paper) to post to this blog later this year.