Managerial challenges in open innovation: a study of innovation intermediation in the chemical industry
研究了企业与创新中介合作时面临的三个管理挑战：选择合适的中介、选择正确的问题、以及如何表述问题以激发新方案，并基于知识管理文献提出应对措施。
The current open innovation literature needs to be complemented with work on the managerial challenges faced by companies working with an innovation intermediary to solve research and development (RD (2) selecting the right problems; and (3) formulating problems so as to enable novel solutions. Based on the knowledge management literature, we explain how these challenges arise out of scientists' different work practices in internal vs. external R&D problem solving and we identify and discuss a number of remedies to these challenges.