Open Innovation in Practice: Goal Complementarity and Closed NPD Networks to Explain Differences in Innovation Performance for SMEs in the Medical Devices Sector

Business & Economics

• Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) 100%
• Medical Devices 73%
• Complementarity 71%
• Open Innovation 63%
• Innovation Performance 62%
• New Product Development 58%
• Survey Data 7%
• Resources 7%
• Networking 6%
• New Product Development Process 6%
• Professionalism 6%
• Organizational Characteristics 6%
• Fairness 6%
• Manpower 5%
• Systems Approach 5%
• Response Rate 5%
• Innovation Activities 5%
• Financial Resources 5%
• Development Process 5%
• Liability 5%

Engineering & Materials Science

• Biomedical equipment 69%
• Product development 64%
• Industry 27%