Vision ERA-Net project on Sectoral modes of open innovation and policy implications (SEMOIPI)
An allegedly new “open innovation” paradigm is replacing the previous closed innovation paradigm as companies increasingly open up their in-house R&D activities and use new, external channels, to commercialize innovations. Nonetheless much less is known about how the pervasiveness and mode of this new paradigm differs across and within industrial sectors, as well as which the concrete drivers, modes and consequences are in various innovation contexts. The SEMOIPI-project combines statistical data across sectors with in-depth case studies to assess how sectors differ globally in these above mentioned respects, as well as to analyze whether similar drivers and modes characterize open innovation in advanced high-tech sectors and more traditional ‘low-tech’ sectors. This project is aimed at designing specific policy measures for different types of industries, related to three different types of R&D collaboration, namely targeted at basic & applied research, innovation processes and market access. In addition, it assesses which role service providing firms and SMEs play in a world of open innovation, and which particular innovation policies can foster R&D collaboration for these types of firms. The research methodology is a combination of an analysis of databases of strategic alliances, firm level survey and case studies drawn from different sectors and context for innovation. The methodology thereby seeks to secure a sufficiently variegated viewpoint on the sectoral modes of open innovation
Partners: Etlatieto Oy (Helsinki, Finland), NIFU-STEP, (Oslo, Norway), Linköping University/KITE (Linköping, Sweden) and Advansis Oy (Helsinki, Finland).
B@Home
Broadband access technologies like ADSL and Cable modems are currently mainly used for fast internet access and being always on line.The next generation will provide a much better end-to-end “quality of service”, guarantees for security and privacy and provisions for service management. Broadband access and home networks will become intertwined. The objective of this project is to develop new business models and service architectures for end-to-end provision of broadband services to the home for infotainment, health care, education and work applications which is absolutely necessary to boost the acceptance and realisation of broadband services into the home.
Publication:
Borst, I., Ballon, P., Bitter, R., Dittrich, K., Ende, van den J., Limonard, S., Pekarek, M., Pennings, L., Spit, S., Tee, R., Verhoest, P. "SOTA broadband services and their business models" B@Home report, January 2005
PhD Research
The main topic of my Ph.D. project is strategic networking between manufacturers in the ICT industry for the development of new hardware and software, with special attention to mobile telephony and Internet applications. The theoretical framework of the analysis builds on evolutionary economics, strategic management studies and social network analysis. The empirical analysis is based on the MERIT-CATI and CGCP databases on strategic technology alliances of firms in the global ICT industry. The thesis includes case studies of the innovation networks of IBM and Nokia. Thesis supervisors are prof. dr. H.G. Sol (Delft University of Technology) and prof. dr. G.M. Duysters (Eindhoven University of Technology).
