Open innovation in automotive SMEs suppliersan opportunity for new product development

  1. María Isabel Rodríguez Ferradas
  2. José A. Alfaro Tanco
Revista:
Universia Business Review

ISSN: 1698-5117

Ano de publicación: 2016

Número: 50

Páxinas: 142-157

Tipo: Artigo

Outras publicacións en: Universia Business Review

Resumo

The main goal of this study is to determine which open innovation practices can be especially useful to SMEs in the automobile sector in the development of new products and services. We aim to encourage practitioners to study and implement open innovation practices as a way of satisfying the changing needs of the market and remaining competitive. In order to do this, we describe in detail one specific open innovation practice that we consider to be a useful tool for systematizing new product development processes: joint development.

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