Outsourcing Innovation

Companies that are considering outsourcing parts of their innovation activities (outsourcers) and companies that are candidates for taking over those innovation activities (vendors) are faced with numerous challenges for conducting a successful innovation outsourcing arrangement. The question that raises interest and which we explore through this research is: How can innovation be successfully outsourced? The intention is to explore how different types of innovation (incremental, radical, open, user-driven) can be outsourced and what are the basic challenges outsourcers and vendors could face when dealing with them. In addition, various innovation models (fuzzy front end, five generation, etc) will be explored in the light of outsourcing i.e., which stages can be outsourced and how are they managed in outsourcing.

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