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Partnership Between Small and Large Firms
The authors' analysis relieson traditional theories of industrial organization and tests existing hypotheses, many of thempreviously untested due to data constraints.Innovation and Small Firms brings together two largedata bases recently ...
This book uses in-depth case studies to provide a structured analysis of open innovation practices in small and medium-sized enterprises.
Frequently used labels for these new ventures include “intra-industry spin-offs” (Klepper, 2002), plainly “spin-outs” (Agarwalet al., 2004), “progeny” (Phillips, 2002), or “spawns” (Chatterji, 2009). For our purpose, this definition is ...
... large firms can look for the right startup and vice versa. Finally, negotiations between David and Goliath can be cumbersome. Therefore, I finish this chapter with a number of topics to negotiate effectively with large companies ...
... innovation but can also expose the company to opportunistic behaviours of other members of the alliance [8]. Let us analyze the studies on innovation partners (types) with ... of the positive correlation between 68 M. Bujidos-Casado et al.
... smaller firms have multiplied over the past few years. To large firms, partnerships usually offer a channel to tap into the innovative and entrepreneurial potential of smaller companies, and to overcome some of their own rigidities. In most ...
Al-Hakim, Latif. Some studies suggest that small firms remain innovative, especially because they innovate in different ways than large businesses, which means that small and large firms have different determinants of innovation efforts ...
... of critical issues: convergence of purpose, consistency of position within the large firm, and interface. However, small and large firms in a partnership may also differ in other ways. For Entrepreneurial Firms in Search of Alliance ...
... of the innovation partnership. They have to be prepared to accept not to have the full-ownership and control of IP. Large firms also have to pay attention to be flexible enough in term of control, legal compliances or due diligence in ...