Recipes for success: Conditions for knowledge transfer across open innovation ecosystems.

•Examines conditions for knowledge transfer success between organizational partners within an open-innovation ecosystem.•Employs an fsQCA approach to analyse empirical data captured from ecosystem partners.•Results reveal combinations of conditions required for knowledge transfer success between ecosystem partners.•Differing condition combinations are present within equally successful, ecosystem partnerships.•Combinations are dependent on the type of ecosystem partnership under consideration.