›› 2017, Vol. 29 ›› Issue (4): 68-82.

Previous Articles     Next Articles

Research on the Construction of University-driven Open Innovation Ecosystem

Lyu Yibo, Han Shaojie, Su Jingqin, Wang Shujuan   

  1. Faculty of Management and Economics, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024
  • Received:2015-02-12 Online:2017-04-28 Published:2017-04-21

Abstract:

With the rise of open innovation paradigm, innovation ecosystem is showing features of openness. As the bearers of basic research and the source of original innovation, universities play a bigger role in leading and driving the open innovation ecosystem. So the construction of university-driven open innovation ecosystem becomes a new trend in theoretical research and industrial development. Focusing on the collaborative innovation center of the target-based functional foods and drugs led by Dalian Medical University, the paper makes an exploration into the construction of university-driven open innovation ecosystem by means of single case study to recognize the features of constructing agent, constructing element, constructing mechanism, boundary expanding based on different constructing stages. We discover that: (1) the construction of university-driven open innovation ecosystem can be divided into three stages:the gathering of core members, the formation of basic framework and the dynamic development of system; (2) the expert-led mechanism is the core mechanism which runs through the whole constructing process of university-driven open innovation ecosystem; (3) the generalization of the function of “decomposers” is an important feature for the constructing agent in the university-driven open innovation ecosystem; (4) distributed innovation network platform is a core element of the university-driven open innovation ecosystem successfully constructed; (5) the fuzziness and penetration of boundaries is a unique phenomenon exhibited in the construction of university-driven open innovation ecosystem.

Key words: open innovation ecosystem, university-driven, system construction, boundary expanding