A collaborative innovation network is a social construct that is used to describe innovative teams. It can be seen as a cyber-team of self-motivated people with a collective vision, enabled by the Web technologies to collaborate in achieving a common goal by sharing ideas, information, knowledge and work.
Published in Chapter:
Open Innovation: Reaching Out to the Grass Roots Through SMEs – Exploring Concerns of Opportunities and Challenges to Attain Economic Sustainability
Copyright: © 2021
|Pages: 34
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-5849-2.ch003
Abstract
While talking about successful entrepreneurship and value addition within an enterprise through innovation, one could comprehend that the innovation paradigm has been shifted from simple introduction of new thoughts and products to accumulation of diversified actions, actors, and agents along the process. Furthermore, when the innovation process is not being constrained within the closed nature of it, the process takes many forms during its evolution. Innovations have been seen as closed innovation or open innovation, depending on its nature of action, but contemporary world may have seen many forms of innovation, such as technological innovation, products/service innovation, process/production innovation, operational/management/organizational innovation, business model innovation, or disruptive innovation, though often they are robustly interrelated.