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Business Beyond COVID-19: Towards Open Innovation

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Open Innovation (OI) is significant in progressed and improving conditions from coronavirus consequences. The COVID pandemic has brought many alterations in innovation and surroundings with OI. It is difficult to determine the long-term influence of COVID-19. It has a direct impact on large, small and medium enterprises (SMEs). This research aims to show how the association of university and research can help both organizations and SMEs. COVID-19 helps in the business association between well-settled organizations and start-ups in difficult business surroundings. This research also shows joint insights and helps in fulfilling the needs of academicians, professionals and decision-makers as an important procedure during the pandemic.

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Thomas, A. (2021). Business Beyond COVID-19: Towards Open Innovation. In: Paul, J., Dhir, S. (eds) Globalization, Deglobalization, and New Paradigms in Business. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-81584-4_11

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