Open Innovation Practices
StrategyReliability: alpha 0.883 sample items
About this scale
A multi-item measure of open innovation practices — inbound (acquiring external knowledge), outbound (exploiting internal knowledge externally), and coupled (collaborative innovation).
Sample item(s)
“We regularly acquire knowledge from external partners (inbound)”
“We license out our innovations to external companies (outbound)”
“We collaborate with external partners to co-develop innovations (coupled)”
Reliability
Reported internal consistency: alpha 0.88. As a rule of thumb, Cronbach’s α ≥ .70 is considered acceptable, ≥ .80 good, and ≥ .90 excellent for established measures.
Notes
Foundational open-innovation framework.
Source & citation
Chesbrough, H., & Bogers, M. (2014): Explicating open innovation: Clarifying an emerging paradigm for understanding innovation. New Frontiers in Open Innovation, pp. 3–28.
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