New Taxonomy for Corporate Open Innovation Initiatives

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Academic literature used to lack a taxonomy regarding the types of repeatable structures and approaches that incumbent companies can use in order to deal with frequently business model threatening open innovation developments – threats that are often facilitated by start-up companies. The course of investigation provides a clustering taxonomy for these structures, so-called: corporate open innovation initiatives. Subsequently, the validity is tested by an in-depth analysis of Germany's 500 biggest companies along with 50 biggest banks and 30 biggest insurances. Furthermore, multiple case studies with industry experts show applicable management's best practices. Finally, a management framework is developed, which aims to be a summarizing tool for practitioners and researchers in order to define a suitable corporate strategy for creating an own corporate open innovation initiative.  Contents Corporate open innovation initiatives: Taxonomy development and validity test within the German market Multiple case studies: Managing and implementing corporate open innovation initiatives Development of a taxonomy management framework for corporate open innovation initiatives Target Groups Researchers, practitioners, students and lecturers in the areas of open innovation management, corporate venturing and corporate entrepreneurship The Author During his doctoral studies Dr. Tim Blume worked as a research assistant and lecturer in private equity at the EBS Universität für Wirtschaft und Recht, Wiesbaden, Germany.