The Role of Inter-organizational Collaboration within Innovation Strategies: towards a Portfolio Approach
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Within the innovation literature, inter-organizational cooperation is being advanced as instrumental for improving the innovative performance of firms. In addition, it has been suggested more recently, that inter-organizational cooperation can be instrumental for addressing the paradoxical requirements innovation strategies entail. At the same time-large scale-empirical evidence for such a relation is scarce. Within this paper we examine whether evidence can be found for the idea that inter-organizational collaboration supports the effectiveness of innovation strategies. A multivariate analysis of data on Belgian manufacturing firms, collected by means of the CIS survey (n=246), reveals a positive relationship between inter-organizational collaboration and innovative performance. Moreover the findings reported here indeed suggest the relevancy of adopting a portfolio approach towards inter-organizational collaboration.
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