The international debate on addressing global climate change increasingly points at the role that companies can play by using their innovative capacity. However, up till now companies have been rather cautious in taking decisive steps in facilitating an innovation-based transition towards a...

Climate change is seen as the most pressing environmental problem of our time by many companies, policymakers and other stakeholders. It is currently also at the forefront of attention in view of attempts to conclude a successor to the Kyoto Protocol that expires in 2012. In bail-out plans and...

This study examines the antecedents of explorative and exploitative learning of technological knowledge from external corporate ventures. We compare different forms of external corporate venturing, namely corporate venture capital investments, alliances, joint ventures, and acquisitions, as...

The creation of novel strategies, the pursuit of entrepreneurial opportunities, and the development of new technologies, capabilities, products or business models all involve solving complex problems that require making a large number of highly interdependent choices. The challenge that complex...

Innovation has become a central theme and challenge in the literature of entrepreneurship, SMEs management, and strategic knowledge management and in the literature of organizational learning. Innovation needs a business environment that is conducive to long-term investments in new business...

When, on 21st September 2006, 'The Economist' compared incumbent telecommunication operators with dinosaurs that could soon face extinction, most readers were ready to agree. The mixture of declining revenues and fierce competition was believed to shake the market and soon to dethrone former...

Alliance formation is commonplace in many high-technology industries experiencing radical technological change, where established firms use alliances with new entrants to adapt to technological change, while new entrants benefit from the ability of established players to commercialize the new...

Incumbent firms often face severe challenges when confronted with technological discontinuous change. However, interfirm cooperation between incumbents and new entrants has been suggested as one way that incumbents can adapt to radical technological change. In particular, we are interested in...

The use of strategic alliances by technology ventures has increased dramatically over the last twenty years. During this period companies not only increased the use of alliances, but have also used them in more strategically important areas, particularly in Ramp;D and new product development....