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<bold>Background:</bold> A firm’s cooperative strategies are a fundamental issue in the search for business growth avenues, but a system that eases the emergence of coupled open innovation appears to be missing.
<bold>Objectives:</bold> This paper describes a business networking tool to foster coupled open innovation emergence.
<bold>Methods/Approach:</bold> We adopted a methodology based on design science comparable to grounded theory because solutions emerged by testing a design artefact with companies.
<bold>Results:</bold> We designed and tested an artefact designed as a game to encourage participants to meet as many partners as possible. It is based on collaborative innovation mechanisms and gets inspiration from fields such as organization design, service design, and prospective design. The proposed artefact comes as prescriptive rules that support managers’ open innovation opportunity elicitation.
<bold>Conclusions:</bold> From a practical point of view, we contribute by helping companies find emergent open innovation opportunities. From a theoretical point of view, this artefact is part of an emergent theory of object-oriented coupled open innovation mechanisms.
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Background: A firm’s cooperative strategies are a fundamental issue in the search for business growth avenues, but a system that eases the emergence of coupled open innovation appears to be missing.
Objectives: This paper describes a business networking tool to foster coupled open innovation emergence.
Methods/Approach: We adopted a methodology based on design science comparable to grounded theory because solutions emerged by testing a design artefact with companies.
Results: We designed and tested an artefact designed as a game to encourage participants to meet as many partners as possible. It is based on collaborative innovation mechanisms and gets inspiration from fields such as organization design, service design, and prospective design. The proposed artefact comes as prescriptive rules that support managers’ open innovation opportunity elicitation.
Conclusions: From a practical point of view, we contribute by helping companies find emergent open innovation opportunities. From a theoretical point of view, this artefact is part of an emergent theory of object-oriented coupled open innovation mechanisms.

The Co-innovation Bingo: An Object-Oriented Networking Mechanism to Foster Coupled Open Business Innovation

University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western

Business Systems Research Journal

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Background: A firm’s cooperative strategies are a fundamental issue in the search for business growth avenues, but a system that eases the emergence of coupled...

The Co-innovation Bingo: An Object-Oriented Networking Mechanism to Foster Coupled Open Business Innovation

Published Online: Apr 10, 2022

Page range: 144 - 159

Received: Jan 15, 2021

Accepted: Jul 11, 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/bsrj-2021-0024

Keywords
collaborative innovation, coupled open innovation, innovation mechanisms, design science, gamification

© 2021 Vincent Grèzes et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

The Co-innovation Bingo: An Object-Oriented Networking Mechanism to Foster Coupled Open Business Innovation

Published Online: Apr 10, 2022

Page range: 144 - 159

Received: Jan 15, 2021

Accepted: Jul 11, 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/bsrj-2021-0024

Keywordscollaborative innovation, coupled open innovation, innovation mechanisms, design science, gamification

© 2021 Vincent Grèzes et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Keywords
collaborative innovation, coupled open innovation, innovation mechanisms, design science, gamification