The current literature on open innovation (OI) has been limited to organization-level studies of inbound OI despite the importance of understanding outbound OI to improve performance of public research organizations (PRO) at project level. Our study contributes to the OI literature by investigating the relationship between the innovation potential and the commercialization performance of 189 outbound OI projects between PROs and firms, and the effect of network and project management processes on this relationship. In line with our expectation, our results demonstrate that PRO-firm outbound OI projects with technologies of high innovation potential are likely to have high commercialization performance. In addition, we empirically establish that among projects with technologies of high innovation potential, those with high resource allocation quality are more likely to have high commercialization performance. Finally, our findings indicate that among projects with technologies of high innovation potential, those with high opportunity discovery through networks are more likely to have high commercialization performance.

尽管了解出站OI对提高项目级别的公共研究组织（PRO）的绩效很重要，但有关开放式创新（OI）的当前文献仅限于组织级别的入站OI研究。我们的研究通过调查PRO和企业之间189个对外OI项目的创新潜力与商业化绩效之间的关系，以及网络和项目管理流程对该关系的影响，为OI文献做出了贡献。与我们的预期相符，我们的结果表明，具有高创新潜力的PRO-firm境外OI项目可能具有较高的商业化表现。此外，我们根据经验确定在具有高创新潜力的技术项目中，资源分配质量较高的企业更可能具有较高的商业化性能。最后，我们的发现表明，在具有高创新潜力的技术项目中，通过网络发现高机会的项目更有可能具有较高的商业化绩效。