Collaborative strategies and open innovation in the mobile telecommunications industry

This Study deals with the issue of open innovation in the mobile phone industry, especially focusing oil the fact that mobile firms have increasingly become engaged in external capabilities to extend the knowledge boundaries of firms. As an open innovation strategy, the collaboration efforts have been especially important due to the rapid speed of external environment change. The authors confirm that the number of co-patenting in US patents, which indicates strong collaborative research of leading mobile firms (Nokia, Motorola, Samsung and LG), is not so high. This paper also confirms that current industry leader have high the cross-country patents compare to others with increasing strategic activity.