Systematic design of an open innovation tool

The importance of the concept of innovation is being emphasized in all over the world. With the spread of information and communication technologies, the concept of open innovation began to be more popular as a subtitle of innovation. Hence, studies and projects on this issue have gained momentum. Open innovation practices are attempted to be performed by different techniques and approaches in different sectors, but there are still no standards or commonality established in this area. Although some companies can successfully use open innovation without relying too much on their internal R&D to achieve technological progress, the methods and tools are not well-defined yet. In addition, research shows that the managers and practitioners in companies who are practically using the open innovation techniques and approaches are not very well aware of the open innovation concept itself.Since the amount of knowledge has increased drastically and also knowledge can be accessed from practically anywhere, taking advantage of open innovation has become a necessity for companies. The validation of the required knowledge and the decisions of how and where to use the knowledge can be supported by effective open innovation tools. Companies can improve their competitiveness with the use of the open innovation web portals as an effective open innovation tool. Open innovation web portals are one of open innovation tools that bring together companies and innovators on Web 2.0 platforms to reach the goal of innovation-based results. In this thesis, a structure of an open innovation web portal is designed using Quality Function Deployment (QFD) and Systematic Design methodologies. In addition, a detailed literature review about innovation, open innovation and design methodologies is presented. A field study on the open innovation awareness and benchmark study of various open innovation web portals are also presented.