The role of information technology in enabling open innovation

Influence of IT on Innovation and Open Innovation A review of studies investigating the relationship between IT and innovation reveals that in general, IT contributes to innovation process in organizations (Ghaffari & Aubert, 2014). [...] One way to explain the role of one factor on the effectiveness of another factor is to determine if these factors have complementarity or substitutability effect in increasing the measure of effectiveness. [...] In contrast, complementarity or positive synergy reflects a situation where an increase in either factor increases the impact of the 6. Innovativeness is sometimes used to refer to the level of radicalness of a specific case of innovation (Garcia & Calantone, 2002). [...] In the context of this study, for example, if it is considered that a specific capability has a complementarity effect with IOIP in influencing the organization’s innovativeness, increasing the level of that capability increases the marginal or incremental returns of taking inbound open innovation approach. [...] Table 1. Summary of Definitions Construct/concept Definition Substitutability A situation where the combined effect of two factors is less (more) than the sum of (complementarity) each factor’s separate effect and can be viewed as negative (positive) synergy, that is, increasing either factor decreases (increases) the marginal impact of the other Organizational The capability of an organization to