MANAGEMENT IMPLICATION IN OPEN INNOVATION RESEARCH: A SYSTEMATIC LITERATURE ANALYSIS

Open Innovation is a topic becoming a trend for research in innovation management and the craving to have a firm open to external contributions and able to exploit the opportunities avail- able outside to increase firm’s performances is spreading widely. Managers may be doubtful on relying to scientific research, since some issue in transferring knowledge has emerged. Renouncing to a handful of suggestions from experts in the field of open innovation is on the other side counterproductive. Shortening the distance passes through the adoption of an in- termediating role, offering a handful of diverse information already acquired, processed and prepared for current use. The analysis conducted is offering a useful guide for managers based on selected quality evidences that are giving implications for managerial practice and tracing the path to reconnect them to scholarly practice.