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 …

costs. Research therefore repeatedly stressed the positive relationship between collaborative R&D and innovation performance … terms of gains for innovation performance, but also show that collaboration has decreasing and even negative returns on … product innovation if its intensity increases above a certain threshold. In particular, costs start outweighing benefits if a …

into the market. There is a growing need to understand important activities so as to achieve product innovation. This … involvement, and inward IP licensing, on product innovation, especially considering the degree of the novelty of the manufactured …-exploration are crucial determining factors as to whether low or higher degree of novelty is achieved in product innovation. The …