How the Diversity of Cooperation Partners Affects Startups’ Innovation Performance: An Analysis of the Role of Cooperation Breadth in Open Innovation

Elena M. Gimenez-Fernandez; Marcel L.A.M. Bogers; Francesco D. Sandulli

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-16912-1_2

How the Diversity of Cooperation Partners Affects Startups’ Innovation Performance: An Analysis of the Role of Cooperation Breadth in Open Innovation

Elena M. Gimenez-Fernandez, Marcel L.A.M. Bogers, Francesco D. Sandulli

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This study examines the relationship between the diversity of partners that a startup cooperates with and its innovation performance. Open innovation is important for startups as they need to open their boundaries to overcome the liabilities of newness. Based on data from the Spanish Innovation Technology Panel (PITEC) from 2004 to 2013, we find that startups benefit to a greater extent than incumbent firms from cooperation breadth. Moreover, we find that this effect is stronger for high-tech startups in particular. We therefore conclude that the breadth of cooperation partners plays an important role in knowledge exploration and exploitation in startups. This study contributes to the link between open innovation and entrepreneurship, it advances our knowledge on the role of breadth as a mechanism to integrate heterogeneous knowledge and access to complementary assets, and it also sheds light on some of the contingencies in terms of which types of startups will benefit most.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Open Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Subtitle of host publication	Impetus of Growth and Competitive Advantages
Editors	Gadaf Rexhepi, Robert D. Hisrich, Veland Ramadani
Publisher	Springer
Pages	9-35
Number of pages	27
ISBN (Print)	978-3030169114
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16912-1_2
Publication status	Published - 2019
Externally published	Yes

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Gimenez-Fernandez, E. M., Bogers, M. L. A. M., & Sandulli, F. D. (2019). How the Diversity of Cooperation Partners Affects Startups’ Innovation Performance: An Analysis of the Role of Cooperation Breadth in Open Innovation. In G. Rexhepi, R. D. Hisrich, & V. Ramadani (Eds.), Open Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Impetus of Growth and Competitive Advantages (pp. 9-35). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16912-1_2

Gimenez-Fernandez, Elena M. ; Bogers, Marcel L.A.M. ; Sandulli, Francesco D. / How the Diversity of Cooperation Partners Affects Startups’ Innovation Performance: An Analysis of the Role of Cooperation Breadth in Open Innovation. Open Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Impetus of Growth and Competitive Advantages. editor / Gadaf Rexhepi ; Robert D. Hisrich ; Veland Ramadani. Springer, 2019. pp. 9-35

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Open Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Impetus of Growth and Competitive Advantages. ed. / Gadaf Rexhepi; Robert D. Hisrich; Veland Ramadani. Springer, 2019. p. 9-35.

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Gimenez-Fernandez EM, Bogers MLAM, Sandulli FD. How the Diversity of Cooperation Partners Affects Startups’ Innovation Performance: An Analysis of the Role of Cooperation Breadth in Open Innovation. In Rexhepi G, Hisrich RD, Ramadani V, editors, Open Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Impetus of Growth and Competitive Advantages. Springer. 2019. p. 9-35 doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-16912-1_2

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