Designing an open innovation pattern for the Iranian gold industry

Introduction: Open innovation has been widely discussed in the management of the innovation literature over the past decade, which has led to the increasing recognition of its benefits, including the use of knowledge inputs to accelerate domestic innovation and expanding the market for using innovation in small and medium company. Better understanding of the stimulus, shaping, and consequence variables of open innovation can help to better explain the relationships between them and thus better plan open innovative actions. The policy of companies to expand innovative activities depends on identifying the position of its factors and drivers in their internal and external environment. In this regard, considering the gaps in the Iranian gold industry, a comprehensive pattern of open innovation was developed based on systematic review of articles and thematic analysis. This process was performed by identifying all the variables affecting the open innovation pattern in the Iranian gold industry and analyzing the relationships between them, as well as identifying the effects of open innovation on performance indicators. Methodology: Tht research type is qualitative one with exploratory-explanatory nature in which the systematic review of research literature, meta-synthesis approach and thematic analysis have been used.In this regard, by carefully studying the existing resources at the international and national level in the field of open innovation, has identified the most important influential and influential factors in the open innovation process. Then, using the qualitative method (meta-synthesis approach), the identified factors were coded and modified and the relationships between them were identified in order to draw the initial pattern of innovation. Then, in order to adapt the identified framework specifically to the reality of Iran's gold industry, in line with the thematic analysis method, semi-structured interviews with gold industry experts designed and conducted. The results of these steps led to the identification of new variables, their coding and classification into new concept codes. By merging and categorizing the factors, final categories identified and by examining the relationships between them, an open innovation pattern in the Iranian gold industry developed and important influential and influential factors identified in the pattern. Results and Discussion: Based on the seven steps of meta-synthesis after passing through several layers of