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The purchasing innovation function, an interface player in open innovation
[L’achat-innovation, un acteur d’interface d’Open Innovation]

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  • Sihem Ben Mahmoud-Jouini

    (GREGH - Groupement de Recherche et d'Etudes en Gestion à HEC - HEC Paris - Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

  • Romaric Servajean-Hilst

    (i3-CRG - Centre de recherche en gestion i3 - X - École polytechnique - Université Paris-Saclay - I3 - Institut interdisciplinaire de l’innovation - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Kedge BS - Kedge Business School)

  • Agathe Gilain

    (CGS i3 - Centre de Gestion Scientifique i3 - Mines Paris - PSL (École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris) - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres - I3 - Institut interdisciplinaire de l’innovation - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

  • Anne Dumas

    (HEC Paris - Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales, X - École polytechnique)

Abstract

The benefits of Open Innovation, and specifically of innovation coming from suppliers, are widely emphasized by literature. In parallel, the difficulties of implementing such approaches are also underlined, and the necessity of creating new roles is emphasized for managing the interface and intermediation between internal functions and external innovation suppliers. Based on interviews conducted in two industrial firms, we show the emergence of a new practice supported by players at the interface between purchasing and innovation: the innovation-purchasers. We also show how they build this new role, in interface with Purchasing and R & D functions, that is critical in the implementation of open innovation by firms.

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  • Sihem Ben Mahmoud-Jouini & Romaric Servajean-Hilst & Agathe Gilain & Anne Dumas, 2019. "The purchasing innovation function, an interface player in open innovation [L’achat-innovation, un acteur d’interface d’Open Innovation]," Post-Print hal-02366488, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-02366488
    DOI: 10.3166/rfg.2019.00353
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