Open Repositories Contributors to Open Innovation Strategies: Sharing Data and Knowledge on Patents

Innovation management is a sub-discipline of management that studies the rules that govern the generation, diffusion and adoption of innovation, and the relationships between innovation inputs and outputs. Innovation management was traditionally understood as a linear model that comprised a sequence of activities – from basic research to serial production and market launch -, completed by a single entity. In the linear model, the achievement of innovations was determined by the planning, financing and execution of internal R&D activities or external technology acquisition.Linear models were replaced by collaborative models based on feedback and interactions between different partners (Busse, 2013; Harmelen 2012). Today, innovation management is seen as a non-linear, evolutionary, interactive process between the company and its environment that requires the close collaboration of different agents (Iordatii, 2013). This evolution culminated in the Open Innovation Model.

Open Innovation is based on the open cooperation and sharing of information and knowledge. This presentation describes how open repositories can contribute to share and promote open innovation activities based on a practical proposal to create knowledge sharing communities around document repositories, with an emphasis on patents.