Management Review ›› 2020, Vol. 32 ›› Issue (6): 307-322.

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Research on the Construction Motivation of the Enterprise-centered Open Innovation Ecosystem

Han Shaojie, Lv Yibo, Su Jingqin   

  1. School of Economics and Management, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024
  • Received:2019-09-02 Published:2020-07-10

Abstract: With the development of open innovation paradigm and innovation ecosystem, open innovation ecosystem (OIE) is becoming a new trend of theory research and industry development. This paper conducts an exploratory single case study to explore the origins, manifestation characteristics and transmission path of the construction motivation of the enterprise-centered OIE. The case selected comes from the innovation ecosystem of high-end computerized numerical control machine tool led by Dalian Gona Technology Group Co., Ltd. This paper finds that the construction motivation of the enterprise-centered OIE comes from six hierarchies including the external technology context hierarchy, market context hierarchy, institution context hierarchy, and the internal entrepreneurial attention hierarchy, entrepreneurial cognition hierarchy and entrepreneurial spirit hierarchy. On this basis, combining with the typical event analysis and content analysis, this paper discerns 14 kinds of concrete manifestation characteristics of the construction motivation on this six hierarchies:technical complexity, technical dynamics, technical backwardness, diversified market demand, systematic market competition, leading opportunity of formal institution, driving pressure of informal institution, internal attention allocation of entrepreneurs, external attention allocation of entrepreneurs, economic cognition, non-economic cognitive, challenge consciousness, innovative consciousness and risk consciousness. Further, it is found that the construction motivation of the enterprise-centered OIE transmits along the path of "the external technology, market, institution context hierarchy→entrepreneurial attention hierarchy→entrepreneurial cognition hierarchy→entrepreneurial spirit hierarchy". According to these ideas, the paper builds a manifestation architecture of the construction motivation of the enterprise-centered OIE including the origins, manifestation characteristics and transmission path.

Key words: open innovation ecosystem, enterprise-centered, construction motivation, case study