Actors and success factors of open innovation ecosystem: A Systematic Review

Open innovation has been vastly studied over past decade. Many researchers have concentrated on individual and firm level and less investigated on the inter-organizational perspective of the innovation ecosystem. Although this has been a popular topic among scholars still many areas are untouched. For this purpose this paper is aimed to identify previous studies on open innovation ecosystem and systematically analyze actors and success factors of such ecosystems. In total 20 articles were identified that discussed open innovation ecosystem. Findings were analyzed by NVIVO/10 software, which indicated different aspects of the actors and success factors of the innovation ecosystem. This study explored research gaps that require further investigation.

Keywords:

Open innovation , Innovation ecosystem , Success factors , Actors of innovation ecosystem , Systematic review