The processes of open innovation: an analysis in the brazilian semiconductor industry

Abstract

Over the past years, in order to innovate, companies have become increasingly dependent on knowledge and resources generated outside organizational boundaries. Thus, the process of innovation in organizations began to consider the contribution of different external agents, among them clients, suppliers, and universities. In the perspective of open innovation, according to Gassman and Enkel (2004), innovation processes can be categorized into three types: outside-in, inside-out and coupled process, being these archetypes characterized by the adoption of different activities. The present article aimed to identify the processes of open innovation adopted by Brazilian design houses in the joint development of integrated circuit projects, for that, the research method applied was a survey, using documentary analysis and the application of structured questionnaires with design houses and specialists in microelectronics. The program SPSS (version 21) was used to help the data analysis, using descriptive and statistical techniques, among them the application of the chi-square test.  The study results showed that the design houses studied implement several practices of the open innovation paradigm in the development of integrated circuits projects, being the practices related to the outside-in process the most frequent, in addition, it was possible to observe there were no significant differences when the design house was a for-profit or nonprofit organization and the open innovation processes adopted.