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The development of ICTs has opened up new markets and ways of innovating. Open innovation breaks the original innovation border of organization and emphasizes the use of suppliers, customers, partners, and other internal and external innovative thinking and resources. How to effectively implement and manage open innovation has become a new business problem. Business ecosystem is the network system of value creation and co-evolution achieved by suppliers, customers, partners and other groups with self-organization mode. Nevertheless, it misses exploring the very nature of the relationships between the numerous players evolving in the surrounding environment. E-learning solutions in modular systems could then be easily adopted to different needs of businesses and could be upgraded or downsized according to the immediate learning needs of the enterprise. Businesses to remain innovate have to develop new organisational structures for the implementation of cooperative and collaborative forms of learning. This paper examines the importance of e-learning applications for open innovation in business ecosystems. E-learning should be considered as prerequisite for open innovation. Because it enables enterprises to build collaborative relationships, access competitive knowledge, develop and deliver new products and services, strenghthening the development of business ecosystems. The e-learning role in supporting open innovation is implicit but not enough analysed in the academic researchs. Today leading firms with innovative features is seen that use of elearning methods from human resources management to supplier relationship, from customer relationship to distribution networks. Therefore, literature review has been made on the interaction of e-learning, open innovation and business ecosystems structure. However, innovative firms in Turkey that use e-learning methods in business ecosystems were examined. In the light of evaluations obtained from this samples are highlighted to e-learning achievements when firms managing its business ecosystems and planning strategies for open innovation

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