Purpose Researchers agree that collaboration networks can be an important implement in a firm's innovation process, but …/value First, previous researches concerning the network mainly focused on their influence on technology innovation, few scholars …

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 …