Academics’ Willingness to Participate in an Open Innovation Healthcare and Life Science Ecosystem Platform Outside Their Qualifications and Working Experience (Follow-Up Study)

Building an open innovation healthcare and life science ecosystem platform can involve a local or global approach (Chesbrough et al., California Management Review 56:144–171, 2014). Through knowledge transfer (Bacon et al., International Journal of Information Management 49:377–387, 2019), inter-organizational relationships (Radziwon & Bogers, Technological Forecasting and Social Change 146:573–587, 2019), research opportunities (West & Bogers, Innovation 19:43–50, 2017), effects on entrepreneurship (Nambisan et al., Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal 12:354–368, 2018), and connecting corporations and communities (Gupta et al., Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity 3:17, 2017), there could be an amazing potential for open innovation healthcare ecosystem platforms. The research question of Study No. 1 was motivated by open innovation platforms in other industries—such as Local Motors in the automotive industry—where technology products have been built with an effective marketing approach that attracts creators and innovators. As we first researched “Academics’ willingness to participate, collaborate and co-create on an open innovation ecosystem platform, to develop new medical technology products with other individuals, groups, communities and corporations” now the follow-up study (Study No. 2) focuses on “Academics’ willingness to participate in Open Innovation Healthcare Ecosystem Platform outside their qualifications and working experience,” which would also lead to the fact that they have to build a certain autodidactic competence. This should also activate their creativity and new individual and group approaches to innovation management. So we asked just those who answered in Study No. 1 their willingness to participate in an Open Innovation Ecosystems Platform Project to develop Medical Technology Products.