PROMETHEUS: A Web Platform To Support Open Innovation

The competitive pressure for organizations and countries has moved the focus of economy from material to immaterial assets. The recognition that knowledge is the fundamental driver of sustainable competitive and collaborative advantage has been a major breakthrough in management thinking. The movement from internal R&D to external connect and develop opens the door for large and small companies to reach beyond their core competencies to remain competitive in an increasingly complex, uncertain and changing environment. This phenomenon, called Open Innovation, alone has opened completely new perspectives about how to manage human, physical and financial resources. It has also influenced organisations to start recognising that to thrive they need to find new ways of accessing the knowledge they need exactly when they need it, in order to adapt to an ever-changing and increasingly complex and uncertain environment. To this end we propose a platform that is the Knowledge Base Experience (KEB), which collects Knowledge Experience Packages (KEP). This framework is able to support a cooperative “innovation chain” from an Open Innovation (OI) perspective because it contains the tools needed to facilitate the acquisition of knowledge that support the innovation to transfer with particular emphasis on supporting, in particular, Small and Medium companies to survive the current turbulence of the markets