개방형 혁신과 기업 성과와의 관계에 관한 연구

Abstract

Innovation activities of corporations have been evolving along to the stream of times and the change of environment surrounding them. In the view of cooperation, the direction of innovation activities is heading to open innovation named by Henry W. Chesbrough in 2003.The objective of this paper is to examine whether open innovation activities influence on corporation performances or not. This paper performed empirical study on the relationship between open innovation and corporation performances using KIS 2008(2008 Korea Innovation Survey) dataset for testing the effects of open innovation.In this paper, open innovation’s level was measured by the number of types of information sources and the number of types of cooperation partners for innovation. Corporation performances were measured by innovation outcomes and financial results.The result of empirical analysis shows that open innovation activities contribute to innovation outcomes, especially open innovation activities have an effect on not only technological innovation but also management innovation. In other words, it means that open innovation concept could be applied to management innovation beyond technological innovation. However, it is showed that open innovation activities do not influence on financial results. We could guess the reason is that there is time lag between innovation outcomes and financial results, and moreover financial results are influenced on by many external variables such as type of business, competition level, company size and so on. Therefore, I think that more studies considering these aspects are needed.