Hybrid Orchestration of Open Innovation from Technological Community to Innovation Ecosystem
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This paper explores how the hybrid orchestration of open innovation takes place in the digital transformation of the automotive industry in China.
Through a case study of the Telematics@China Community (TCC)—a technological community that contains various practitioners from hardware, software, service, and internet companies in the automotive ICT domain, our study highlights the role of hybrid orchestration in TCC's evolution from a technological community to an innovation ecosystem, driving research and development (R&D) activities between a closed-system and an open-system for the sake of balancing value creation and value capture.
Specifically, the closed-system occurs in innovation ecosystems built to develop new products and complements (e.g., the internet car and its software AliOS), while the open-system takes place in the context of a technological community (TCC in our case). Interestingly, both types of orchestration are embedded in each other – they partially involve the same individuals and organizations.
We identify five principles to demonstrate how closed- and open-system orchestrations are needed simultaneously to serve different purposes, support each other, and sometimes collide.
The paper concludes by stating the study's contribution to theory, policy, and practice in understanding cyclicality and hybrid orchestration in innovation ecosystems.?