...Dominika Brozkova; Tarlan Ahmadov; Marek Brokes; Cali Nuur; Viktor Prokop Purpose The innovation activities of firms are shaped by a variety of barriers that can, paradoxically, either stimulate or hinder their innovation performance. Collaboration among ecosystem partners is often essential...

...André Spithoven; Yingmin Wei Purpose SMEs maintain knowledge networks because innovation has become increasingly collaborative. This study fills a gap in the literature on inter-organisational relationships by looking at knowledge exchange practices to understand how collaborative innovation...

... limited resources but great flexibility and adaptability. Furthermore, Collaborative Networks (CNs) have been proposed by business scholars as a critical strategy to gain resilience and antifragility. However, the concept of antifragility and its relation with CNs is still vague in the SME sector...

...Serdal Temel; Susanne Durst Purpose This commentary aims to provide an overview of how innovation in community mobilisation and collaboration can help address natural disasters quickly and more effectively. This is done using the example of the earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria and caused...

... rights only Crowdsourcing COVID-19 Open innovation Collaboration Disruption The COVID-19 pandemic has been a disruptive event from the economic and social perspectives, leading to unprecedented consequences in most sectors and levels of society (Heinonen and Strandvik, 2021 ; Sharma...

...Mari O' Connor; Justin Doran; Nóirín McCarthy Purpose This paper combines the concepts of search depth and cognitive proximity to investigate the impact of intense collaboration with different external agents on firms' innovation performance. It empirically tests whether firms that draw deeply...

...Annika Steiber; Sverker Alänge Purpose Corporations' emphasis on startup collaboration for corporate innovation has reached a new level in the context of digital transformation. The purpose of this paper is to examine three different models of corporate-startup collaboration and the models...

...Luiz Fernando de Paris Caldas; Fabio de Oliveira Paula; T. Diana L. van Aduard de Macedo-Soares Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze to what extent spending on innovation activities and collaboration at the industry level affects the relationship between firm innovation and performance...

... Collaboration Universities Hospitals Disclosed inventions Medical innovation In medicine, which includes areas such as drugs, diagnostics and medical devices, inventions and innovations frequently originate in medical and scientific practice in public hospitals and universities, and often involve...

... of this paper is to describe and discuss the importance of trust in OI, and the paper specifically focusses on a start-up company’s OI processes with collaboration parties. The paper points out how a lack of trust antecedents may disable such OI processes. Design/methodology/approach The empirical part...

.... Descriptive and non‐parametric tests are used in the analysis. Findings The results on the occurrence of collaborations depict modest collaborative activities with external sources. Most of the collaborations and information are sourced locally because the local climate and growing conditions are so...

...Jialin Hardwick; Alistair R. Anderson; Douglas Cruickshank Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the practices and processes of trust building and use in collaborative networking for product innovation and to compare face to face with virtual networking. Design/methodology/approach...

...Frida Lind; Alexander Styhre; Lise Aaboen Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore university‐industry collaboration in research centres. Design/methodology/approach The paper builds on an explorative study of three research centres at a technical university in Sweden, using in‐depth...

... of collaboration between firms has not received a great deal of attention in the literature. This research paper offers some guidelines on how to obtain great advantages from this collaboration. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Regardless of the particular labels given to innovations, recent...

... taxonomy methods, it proposes a taxonomic classification of open innovation. Design/methodology/approach Earlier work on firm collaboration and concepts related to open innovation in order to understand the main motivations, and conditions behind open innovation‐like strategies is first to be reviewed...

...Pia Hurmelinna‐Laukkanen Purpose Collaboration for research and development (R&D) and innovation among various organizations can be beneficial and in some cases even imperative, but in order to realise the potential, effective management is required. Effective innovation requires firms...