Although research on open innovation practices in larger and smaller organisations has been growing for over a decade, there has been limited evidence on the topic related to new and candidate members of the European Union. Existing studies of open innovation have predominantly focused on the examination of the phenomenon in companies from the most developed European countries (i.e. EU15). In this research, we examine how absorptive capacity and open innovation interact to impact innovation performance, based on a large dataset of companies operating in Slovenia. We contribute to the literature on open innovation by showing how an organisation’s capacity for open innovation can be used to its full potential in order to impact the firm’s performance.

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开放式创新和吸收能力在创新绩效中的作用：来自斯洛文尼亚的经验证据

尽管对大型组织和小型组织中的开放式创新实践的研究已经增长了十多年，但是关于与欧盟新成员和候选成员有关的主题的证据有限。现有的开放式创新研究主要集中在对来自最发达的欧洲国家（即EU15）的公司中的现象进行研究。在这项研究中，我们基于斯洛文尼亚运营的大型公司数据集，研究了吸收能力和开放式创新如何相互作用以影响创新绩效。通过展示组织如何充分利用开放式创新的能力来影响公司的绩效，我们为开放式创新的文献做出了贡献。