Contribution list
Conference paper
Published 01/05/2014
Conférence Annuelle Atlas-AFMI (Association Francophone de Management International), 19/05/2014–21/05/2014, Marseille, France
Conference paper
Open innovation processes within clusters: the role of tertius iugens
Published 01/07/2012
Global Innovation and Knowledge Academy (GIKA) Conference, 10/07/2012–12/07/2012, Valencia, Spain
Conference paper
The role of third parties in open innovation processes: the software case
Published 01/05/2012
R&D Management Conference, 23/05/2012–25/05/2012, Grenoble, France
This paper aims at better understanding the managerial and organizational factors (structures, actors involved, knowledge management systems) leading firms to engage into open innovation projects. After a literature review on open innovation in the software industry, it reviews the role of proximity in the organization of innovation processes. Based on the analysis of two case studies in the proprietary software industry (one exploitation and one exploration innovation case), this paper confirms that spatial proximity may be a favorable but not a sufficient condition to generate the success of open innovation projects. The development of socioeconomic proximity including both coordination and resource-based proximity comes across as a key success factor. The analysis reveals that a third party can play a decisive role in fostering socio-economic proximity between partners. These third parties can be considered as tertius iungens in Obstfeld’s sense (2005). The paper highlights some differences between the exploration and the exploitation case. The managerial and organizational levers activated by these tertius iungens to overcome the barriers to open innovation vary in each case. The paper draws implications for local governance (territorial animation) and network management for start-up firms.
Conference paper
Lead users as heavyweight project managers: the software and the biotech cases
Published 01/08/2011
Nordic Academy of Management Conference, 20/08/2011–24/08/2011, Stockholm, Sweden
Conference paper
Coordinating distributed innovation processes: the cases of software and biotech industries
Published 01/06/2011
Open and User Innovation (OUI) Conference, 02/06/2011–04/06/2011, Vienna, Austria
Conference paper
Lead users as heavyweight project managers: the software case
Published 01/06/2011
R&D Management Conference, 28/06/2011–30/06/2011, Norrköping, Sweden
Conference paper
Open Innovation: la nouvelle frontière de l’innovation
Published 01/04/2011
La Conférence Achat 2011, 05/04/2011–05/04/2011, Lyon, France
Conference paper
Published 01/03/2011
Colloque de l'ISERAM-ISEG, 17/03/2011–17/03/2011, Paris, France
Conference paper
Four Roles Lead Users Have to Play in the Multi-Actor Innovation Process
Published 01/09/2010
Annual Conference of Industrial Marketing and Purchasing (IMP) Group, 02/09/2010–04/09/2010, Budapest, Hungary
Conference paper
When lead users design a modular platform: the software case
Published 01/08/2010
Open and User Innovation (OUI) Conference, 01/08/2010–01/08/2010, Cambridge, USA