Collaborative Innovation in Digital Era - A conceptual framework

Digital transformation compels organizations to revisit their business activities. In this article, we focus on collaborative innovation as an approach to sustain competitive advantage in the complex and fast changing environment characterizing the digital transformation process. The contribution of this paper is a conceptual framework focuses on digital transformation in three key areas: organizational boundaries, business process and value creation. And it proposes collaborative innovation as an innovation strategy where organizations combining knowledge, technologies, and other resources across organizational boundaries to innovate in digital era.