Abstract:

Both practitioners and theoreticians deal with the problems of managing innovation, seeking its determinants which can emerge by minimizing barriers to the creation and implementation of innovations. Core values is a decisive factor for a company’s innovativeness and performance. Additional, they can be crucial for companies using open innovation. The purpose of this paper is to investigate relationship between core values and opening innovation process. Research on a sample of 60 innovative enterprises was conducted through a questionnaire survey. One questionnaire  was sent to each surveyed organization with the request that a person with a broad view of the whole organization. Open innovations were considered in four aspects: as internal cooperation, cooperation with suppliers and customers as well as research institutions. Other key variables analyzed in the research are organizational culture, structure, strategy formulation, technology, enterprise environment, core values and leadership. The results revealed significant influence of leadership, strategy formulation and core values on open innovation process. The results of the research is also identifies core values professed by the enterprises surveyed.