Open innovation might be the way to tackle the world’s most pressing societal challenges – trials that can only be weathered when diverse sets of collaborative partners join forces – but very little understanding exists, beyond anecdotal, to link open innovation to societal impact, says Joon Mo Ahn.

R&D Management has announced its two new Co-Editors-in-Chief Alberto Di Minin and Paavo Ritala, they are supported by an editorial team with significant experience in both academic and commercial spheres of R&D and technology management.

Choosing the best conference papers from the R&D Management Symposium was a difficult job says Dr Lawrence Dooley, University of Cork, one of the judging panel that also included Prof Ellen Enkel University of Duisberg, Essen, Dr Letizia Mortara, University of Cambridge and Prof Paavo Ritala 

How could open innovation (OI) collaborative practices provide a way to tackle the world’s most pressing societal challenges – eradication of disease? Reduction of carbon emissions?  Creation of more sustainable products and services? A special issue of R&D Management investigates this proposition from a number of perspectives and provides insights into how current open innovation […]

Observations suggest that Open Innovation in a downturn can help build resilience; Joon Mo Ahn, Letizia Mortara and Tim Minshall tested this hypothesis with an analysis of the UK CIS data.

New open innovation implementation implies strategic changes which of course in turn represent a different level of risk. These individual types of risks are easier to be tackled by CEOs with certain characteristics than others, as author Joonmo Ahn explains.