Özet:

Due to changing environmental conditions, it has become necessary for companies or institutions to create innovation with the help of both internal and external processes and this situation is defined as open innovation. External processes involved in open innovation; It can be defined as sharing information and technology with other firms with which the company is competing, suppliers and crowdsourcing usage as well as collecting the innovation proposals of its customers through a common platform to be formed as a company. In this way, companies can develop new products and services much more effectively both by using external innovation sources and by sharing their own innovation opportunities with other companies. In this study, open innovation, which has not been sufficiently emphasized so far, is evaluated comparatively with the importance it has for the tourism sector according to the traditional innovation approach. In addition, various open innovation practices are included in the tourism sector.

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