terms of gains for innovation performance, but also show that collaboration has decreasing and even negative returns on …R&D collaboration facilitates pooling of complementary skills, learning from the partner as well as sharing risks and … costs. Research therefore repeatedly stressed the positive relationship between collaborative R&D and innovation performance …

find that collaboration has decreasing and even negative returns on product innovation if its intensity increases above a … certain threshold. Consequently, the relationship between collaboration intensity and innovation has an inverted-U shape. In …R&D collaboration facilitates pooling of complementary skills, learning from the partner as well as sharing risks and …