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 …

In the era of "open innovation", the choice of a cooperative strategy is one of the most significant factors … determining the effectiveness of innovation activities. The authors investigate the typical configurations of cooperative networks … innovation outcomes in terms of innovation novelty and export capacity. The most common cooperative strategy is vertical …