5 R&D Collaboration and Start-ups
Book chapter, 2017
It is well known from previous studies that R&D collaboration is important to firms’ technological development, especially in business-to-business (B2B) markets. This includes empirical studies carried out in the Industrial Marketing and Purchasing (IMP) tradition focusing on the role and importance of interaction, business relationships and industrial networks (e.g. Baraldi, 2003; Baraldi, Gressetvold, & Harrison, 2012; Gressetvold, 2004; Håkansson, 1987; Håkansson & Waluszewski, 2002, 2007; Laage-Hellman, 1997; Wedin, 2001) as well as other types of innovation studies (e.g. McKelvey, Zaring, & Ljungberg, 2015; Melander, 2014; von Hippel, 1988). Innovation thus tends to be the outcome of interaction processes between different types of actors including, for example, selling and buying firms.
Author
Jens Laage-Hellman
Chalmers, Technology Management and Economics, Supply and Operations Management
Maria Landqvist
Chalmers, Technology Management and Economics, Supply and Operations Management
Frida Lind
Chalmers, Technology Management and Economics, Supply and Operations Management
Starting up in business networks: Why relationships matter
139-170
978-1-137-52714-1 (ISBN)
Subject Categories
Other Engineering and Technologies
Business Administration
DOI
10.1057/978-1-137-52719-6_6
ISBN
978-1-137-52714-1