An Analysis of the Open Innovation Scenarios in the Food Industry with the System Dynamics Approach (SD) and the Fuzzy DEMATEL Technique (Case Study of Sesame Industry in Yazd Province)

One of the important factors in the destruction of organizations is the lack of creativity and innovation in the organization. The process of innovation in the past has been dependent on intellectual resources within the organization and the efforts to develop and commercialize them within the organization. But today, the open innovation paradigm uses external ideas and technologies, and allows other companies to take advantage of their innovative ideas. Therefore, in this paper, the factors affecting innovation were identified in order to create open innovation in the sesame industry of Yazd province and the effect of these factors on each other was identified using the fuzzy dematel technique. Then, with the system dynamics technique, scenarios for increasing open innovation in this industry were presented. Finally, it was discovered that increasing the intermediaries of innovation and increasing integration and increasing the link between industry and university could increase open innovation. Other factors include the using close business business in the organization that affects Open innovation , and organizations should try to reduce the use of closed businesses and increase their Relation to customers and competitors and other organizations.