This study explores relationships among various aspects of Innovation Intermediaries' (IIs) business models and their intention to provide digital and data-enabled services to their members/customers. Using mixed research methods with data collected from Danish IIs, we find that IIs' current use level of digital resources has a positive relationship with their intention of offering digital and data services, while the level of existing digital services demotivates or prevents IIs from providing them. We also find that the breadth of IIs' customers and partnerships is not directly associated with their intention to offer more digital services in the future. These findings are enriched with nuanced insights from a follow-up qualitative study showing that strategic partners do not provide the required support for intermediaries to develop and provide digital offerings. Instead, IIs rely on system integrators to equip themselves with the needed digital capacity to support their members/customers. The study contributes to the understanding of IIs’ business models linked to their service catalogue, particularly on digital offerings and their function as digitalization champions in a shifting paradigm of industrial digital transformation. Furthermore, it adds knowledge about open innovation by researching service offerings and relevant resources and capabilities of IIs as network organizations.

Open innovation (OI) is increasingly being adopted by city administrations and municipalities. However, the extent to which the public sector applies OI is yet unclear. Furthermore, studies in OI in public organizations has primarily focused on citizen inclusion and the barriers and drivers of attracting and engaging citizens and seldom considered other external actors, such as academia and other public organizations. Consequently, this study reviews the literature on OI in public organizations and applies the concept of organizational boundary to interpret the relationships among OI actors in the public sector. The review identifies that the maturity of OI in public organizations are low between all actors and these organizations differ to a great extent in terms of which aspects of organizational boundary are open. However, grand challenges and social innovation are exceptions demonstrating a high level of maturity. Furthermore, the use of intermediaries has the potential of opening all aspect of boundaries and hence achieving a high level of success. Finally, the framework presented in this review is used to suggest future research.

In today's business environment, New Product Development (NPD) teams play a pivotal role in propelling innovation. Within NPD teams, both successful and failed projects contribute in enhancing learning processes, yet the epistemological pathways activated by successful projects differ distinctly from those stimulated by failed projects. In this study, we investigate the pathways towards team learning in the context of successful and failed NPD projects using fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA). Drawing from the team learning literature, we examine which configurations of project characteristics (complexity and uncertainty), interpersonal team characteristics (innovation norms, cohesion, and decision-making autonomy), and environmental characteristics (technological and market turbulence) lead to NPD team learning. Our analysis identifies three configurations of factors tied to NPD team learning in successful projects and four configurations in failed projects. In successful projects, project and team characteristics are core in enhancing team learning. In failed projects, together with team characteristics, core conditions are represented by project complexity, uncertainty, while environmental characteristics play a dual role.