Implementing digitally enabled collaborative innovation: A case study of online and offline interaction in the German automotive industry

• DOI: 10.1111/caim.12437
• Publication Date: 2021-05-07T06:20:28Z
• Authors: Rick (H.L.) Aalbers; Eoin Whelan
• Keywords: Competitor analysis; Knowledge Sharing; Open Innovation

In the context of implementing collaborative innovation, a range digitally enabled infrastructures impact core organizational activities. Automotive manufacturing is one such industry where competitors now openly collaborate, facilitated through new technologies, in an effort to enhance collective innovation systems. We conducted longitudinal case study first open network German automotive determine how online and offline channels interact fuel firms' joint search for external ideas. Delving into physical, virtual cognitive enablers our findings suggest that, while platforms can help facilitate knowledge sharing processes that promote firms ideation need develop additional mechanisms based on stronger interactions. As such, contribute better understanding technologies innovation.