start-ups as a means to drive innovation, explore new market opportunities, and gain a competitive edge, To fully leverage … existing literature on collaboration with start-ups, innovation management, and entrepreneurship, This research aims to advance …

While firms increasingly adopt open innovation, little is known about whether firms gain or lose from this innovation … open innovation strategies, particularly collaboration and contractual forms of relationships for innovation (i ….e. innovation cooperation and R&D outsourcing/external R&D). The thesis is empirical and relates the various results to the data …