Locatelli, G orcid.org/0000-0001-9986-2249, Greco, M, Invernizzi, DC et al. (2 more authors) (2021) What about the people? Micro-foundations of open innovation in megaprojects. International Journal of Project Management, 39 (2). pp. 115-127. ISSN 0263-7863
Abstract
Megaprojects require substantial R&D activities involving many different organisations. Megaprojects are therefore an ideal setting for Open Innovation (OI), which favours risk-sharing, enables trustful collaboration, and facilitates the development of breakthrough innovations. OI has been widely studied at the organisational level, however far less attention has been paid at the individual level, including the motivations, costs and benefits perceived by the people involved in the innovation process. This paper aims to address this gap by studying the micro-foundations of OI in megaprojects and focusing on the experiences of people involved in university-industry co-supervised Ph.D. projects. The paper provides two original contributions. Firstly, it contributes to the micro-foundations literature, by analysing the experience of university and industrial supervisors and Ph.D. students involved in megaprojects. Secondly, it expands the OI literature by describing how the interpersonal interactions and the intentional knowledge spillovers promote innovation outside the original boundaries of the Ph.D. project.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2020 Elsevier Ltd, APM and IPMA. This is an author produced version of a paper published in International Journal of Project Management. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/. |
Keywords: | Megaproject; Open Innovation; University-Industry; Micro-foundations; Cost-benefit |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Engineering & Physical Sciences (Leeds) > School of Civil Engineering (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 03 Jul 2020 14:54 |
Last Modified: | 03 Jun 2023 02:25 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Elsevier |
Identification Number: | 10.1016/j.ijproman.2020.06.009 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:162747 |
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