Dear Colleagues:
I would like to invite you contribute a chapter to a volume on "Open Innovation through Strategic Alliances." Please find more information about it below or contact me if you wish to explore further. Thank you very much for your consideration. If you know a colleague who might be interested in it, please pass the word.
A Call for Book Chapters
OPEN INNOVATION THROUGH STRATEGIC ALLIANCES
Refik Culpan, Ph.D. (Editor)
Pennsylvania State University at Harrisburg
Middletown, PA 17057, USA
Email: rculpan@psu.edu
Phone: 717 948 6166
INTRODUCTION
Since Henry Chesbrough coined the term "open innovation" and introduced it as imperative for creating and profiting from technology in 2006, there has been growing recognition of open innovation business models among academicians and business managers. Consequently, publications on the exploration, application, and assessment of open innovation have spurred in recent years. There is almost consensus among scholars and practitioners that open innovation provides firms an opportunity for knowledge building and expansion resulting in competitive advantages and above-average returns. One of the major means of achieving open innovation has been strategic alliances between firms, and between firms and research institutions. This edited book will contribute to our understanding of open innovation through interfirm partnerships by demonstrating its principal forms, dynamics, processes, cases, issues, and challenges in different industries in national and international contexts.
Purpose: Create an authoritative source of fine collection of manuscripts examining open innovation concepts and applications within the context of interfirm relationships.
Coverage: Scholarly conceptual and empirical studies as well as extensive illustrative cases.
Target Audience: The book is intended to appeal graduate and senior undergraduate level students in business administration and engineering management, as well as business executives.
TENTATIVE TABLE OF CONTENT (suggested topics, but not limited to those listed below).
· Introduction and Overview. Joel West, Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences, The Claremont Colleges.
· Chapter 1. Open Innovation Business Models and the Role of Strategic Alliances. Refik Culpan, The Pennsylvania State University at Harrisburg
· Chapter 2. Theoretical Foundations of Open Innovation and its Connection to Strategic Alliances
· Chapter 3. Open Innovation through Joint Ventures
· Chapter 4. Open Innovation through R&D Partnerships
· Chapter 5. Open Innovation through Organizational Networks. Wenzel Mathiaske, Helmut-Shmidt-University, Germany, & Susanne Gretzinger, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
· Chapter 6. Conveying Innovation in the Supply Chain. Richard R. Young. The Pennsylvania State University at Harrisburg
· Chapter 7: Business-University Collaboration for Innovation. Ravi Chinta, Xavier University
· Chapter 8. Open Innovation and Strategic Alliances in Japanese Business Groups: The Case of Mitsubishi. Asli Colpan, Takeshi Nikino , Koyota University, Japan & Hiroyuki Nakazono, Doshisha Univeristy, Japan
· Chapter 9. Strategic Alliances for Open Innovation in Specific Industries 1 (to be named)
· Chapter 10. Strategic Alliances for Open Innovation in Specific Industries 2 (to be named)
· Chapter 11. Strategic Alliances for Open Innovation in a Global Context
· Chapter 12. Challenges and Prospects of Strategic Alliances for Open Innovation.
Best regards,
Refik Culpan
Penn State University at Harrisburg, USA
Refik Culpan