Open innovation not only increases the speed of exploitation and captures economic value from ideas through inward licensing or spinning out unused ideas, it also creates a sense of urgency among internal innovators to use or lose internally available knowledge and technologies. Other motivations for using external sources of innovation are to increase the number of ideas for new projects, to attract and retain talent, and to increase external funding of ideas and technology development (OECD, 2008b). Some of these firms performed in-house R&D, which indicates that they contract out new products or processes not because they lack in-house capability, but in order to find complementary capabilities (OECD, 2010a). Human resource management and the management of different partners are an important aspect of open innovation, since success often depends on involving external partners in the company’s innovation activities.