Research and teaching interests

My research and teaching interests center around the management and organization of innovation, openness in innovation processes and systems, and the role of users in innovation. My research aims at increasing the understanding of the distributed sources of innovation—within, outside and between organizations—and how they determine of firms’ capability to innovate and profit from innovation—for both product and process innovation. To address these issues, my theoretical and empirical work particularly deals with the roles of and interactions between different stakeholders in a value network during innovation creation and commercialization. Specific topics of research interest include users as innovators, open innovation and dynamic firm boundaries, learning and absorptive capacity for product and process innovation, informal innovation and learning-by-doing, and human resource management practices.