Navigating Open Innovation: An Exploration of High-Technology Engineering in Practic

This study explores the authentic practice of high-technology invention and development of products and solutions. The research focuses on how high-tech engineers describe their own experiences practicing innovation and development. Narrative inquiry enables access and understanding to these lived experiences through the research participants' own voices, organizational contexts and artifacts.;The study uses a composite framework in order to achieve the necessary explanatory scope. Chesbrough's Open Innovation (2003) and Miller et al.'s (2006) extended explore/exploit knowledge curation dynamic is combined into a new theoretical framework, OI (E2D). A combination of semi-structured interviews and writing prompts enables data collection and analysis of what is of interest. Findings are identified and presented, and conclusions and recommendations for further research are drawn.