13th Annual World Open Innovation Conference (WOIC 2026)

Key Topics

• Pecuniary and non-pecuniary mechanisms for enabling Open Innovation
• The organizational enablers and barriers for Open Innovation
• How Open Innovation shapes business models (and vice versa)
• The role of technologies in helping (or hindering) Open Innovation processes
• Open service innovation and the impact of Open Innovation upon new service offerings
• Open versus proprietary intellectual property (IP) models for Open Innovation
• The role of individuals in the Open Innovation process
• Communities, networks, ecosystems, and other coupled forms of Open Innovation
• The effect of government policies in helping (or hindering) Open Innovation
• Analyzing Open Innovation between or across multiple levels of analysis
• The role of Open Innovation in entrepreneurship
• The use of Open Innovation by government and other not-for-profit entities
• The moderating effects and contingency factors, such as organizational or national cultures, on Open Innovation
• Linking Open Innovation to broader theories of management or economics
• The costs, downsides, failures, and negative effects of Open Innovation
• Developing metrics (and new research designs) for measuring the impact of Open Innovation