Investigation of problems related to open-innovation in research organizations

Open innovation has become an important topic in innovation management, attracting researchers and those interested in the field of innovation. Among the reasons behind the interest in this field are the shorter cycles of innovation against research and development-scale costs as well as the shortage of resources. The present article aims to identify and investigate open-innovation factors in Iranian Space Agency (ISA). The statistical population of the research includes all employees of research institutes. Pathway analysis has been used in order to investigate the effect of these factors on open-innovation. Pathway analysis results indicated that the fivefold factors crowdsourcing, buying corporation or technology, cooperation and participation, establishing corporation, sale, and technology leakage have meaningful effects on open innovation. It should be noted that the variables corporation-or technology-buying and crowdsourcing have the maximum effect, among the others, on open-innovation in ISA.