Determinants of Innovation Cooperation Performance: What Do We Know and What Should We Know?

Piotr Trąpczyński, Łukasz Puślecki and Michał Staszków
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Piotr Trąpczyński: Department of International Competitiveness, Poznań University of Economics and Business, Al. Niepodległości 10, 61-875 Poznań, Poland
Łukasz Puślecki: Department of International Management, Poznań University of Economics and Business, Al. Niepodległości 10, 61-875 Poznań, Poland
Michał Staszków: Department of International Management, Poznań University of Economics and Business, Al. Niepodległości 10, 61-875 Poznań, Poland

Sustainability, 2018, vol. 10, issue 12, 1-32

Abstract: The involvement of firms in innovation cooperation with different partners has become a widespread phenomenon in the contemporary business landscape. Our paper provides a review of extant alliance, innovation, open innovation and inter-firm collaboration literature and organizes it based on a conceptual framework featuring three levels of analysis: (a) the dyadic level, (b) the network level, and (c) the location level. The article identifies roadmaps in each of these areas and also highlights existing gaps in the present understanding of innovation cooperation. Thereby, it outlines a research agenda by identifying key research questions and issues in the areas where further research is needed and encouraged.

Keywords: innovation cooperation performance; innovation performance; open innovation; open innovation alliances; STP; clusters (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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