**Authors' contributions**

AMG conception and design of the research. AMG collected, analysed and interpreted the data and drafted the manuscript. P.M critically revised the manuscript and approved the final version to be published.

## **Funding**

This research received no specific grant from any funding agency in public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.

## **Competing interests**

The authors declare that they have no financial or personal relationships that may have inappropriately influenced them in writing this article.

## **Data availability statement**

Data sharing applies to this article as new data were created and analysed. Data can be obtained from the authors upon request.

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*Open Innovation Strategies on New Product and Process Development Prospects: A Case… DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.105035*
