Coopetitives practices in open innovation: lessons from patents-pools
This research proposes to reconsider Open Innovation in terms of coopetition. Only very few studies have specifically focused on such an approach. These logics of coopetition are analyzed in the context of the “patent pools”, an organized form of open innovation we describe as “opening large-scale”, that has been little investigated in the managerial literature. We show that patent pools are based on the simultaneous development of collaborative and competitive practices, whether in their constitution or their operation and then draw lessons from their management regarding the coopetition in Open Innovation.