Typical Stages Of Open Innovation And Driving Factors

In the past ten years of research on open innovation,Most of the researches focus on the relationship between open innovation and enterprise performance,R&D cooperation and technology trade based on innovation network,knowledge management in open innovation and user participation in open innovation,however,there are few studies on the open innovation model in the academic circles.The implementation of open innovation is a dynamic process,when the enterprise's internal and external environment changes,how to adjust the open innovation strategy in time?which test the management wisdom of each company.Lichtenthaler(2011)used to point out that we need further research on how to carry out open innovation.During we implement the open innovation,the enterprise's resource endowment,external environment and the understanding of innovation will change with the time,at the same time,the open innovation strategy of the enterprise is bound to make the adjustment,so,what are the phases the open innovation will use,how will the strategy changes?Those problems haven't been solved in the existing literature.Moreover,after the analysis of the connotation of open innovation by Trott and Hartmann(2009),they found it was similar to the cooperative innovation,network innovation and some other concept in the traditional innovation management theory.Gao and Ma(2014)also pointed out that the open innovation is a framework that includes the traditional management theory of innovation,but how to link them,the existing research does not give a clear answer.So,based on the case study of the process of the Hengrui medicine Co.'s open innovation strategy,this paper finds that the open innovation of Hengrui can be divided into four stages,this paper name the four stages by the innovation ways which Hengrui medicine Co.used,combining the traditional innovation management theory,their names are buy-in-now,R&D cooperation,network innovation,relay innovation.In each stage,the openness of the enterprise has changed clearly,which provides the convenience for this article in the enterprise open innovation stage division.Meanwhile,this paper also finds that the factors that promote the evolution of the enterprise from the last stage to the next stage include external factors and internal factors,the external factor refers to external pressure,the internal factors refer to innovative strategic objectives and absorptive capacity.This paper not only makes up for the lack of research on open innovation stage in the current research,but also builds the relationship between open innovation and traditional management theory,which enriches the theory of technology innovation management.The characteristics of the case study also makes this paper can be more detailed to see the evolution process of open innovation,which provides a reference for other enterprises to carry out open innovation.