Open Sources of Innovation and its Influence on Firms Innovativeness
Open Sources of Innovation and its Influence on Firms Innovativeness

Summary/Abstract: Innovation is one of the key sources of achieving competitiveness. This paper discusses open innovation sources and their influence on innovativeness of SMEs. The main aim of an article is to determine the relationship between open sources of innovation and innovativeness in SMEs. The specific objectives of the article relate to examine what kind of channels of open sources of innovation are popular in the activity of surveyed SMEs and if the innovation activity brings them new technology solutions and access to new knowledge. The article also empirically examines how the channels of open innovation sources relate positively with innovativeness of firms and which of the channels do not play any role in the performance in gaining a new technology and knowledge solutions. The study is based on a survey on industrial firms located in Poland. The survey has determined the positive relationship between open sources of innovation and innovativeness of research sample. A strong direct effect on innovativeness of surveyed firms have channels like: feedback from suppliers of equipment, materials, components or software and firms’ clients, information from the articles, standards, metrology. These findings suggest that measurement of open sources of innovation and its channels should be developed further in order to make them a more relevant concept for empirical studies of SMEs innovativeness.

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