Exploring networked innovation

The growing complexity of societal problems and the increasing need to co-design contexts together with the service or product, force companies to collaborate in innovation. This networked innovation requires people to design together, who not only come from different disciplines, but also come from different organisations and companies. The collaboration in networked innovation therefore adds another level of complexity in addition to the (better known) collaboration in mono- and multidisciplinary teams and introduces new issues. This paper describes a literature review of existing knowledge on networked innovation. It also describes a first explorative study in which we investigated in what way networked innovation differs from ‘normal’ innovation projects. Finally we describe the set up of an empirical study that we will execute in the near future.