Insights from N-Helix to practitioners. How many helices are enough, and who are the best partners?
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2021
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Collaborative business models are a good source for creating value for the firm and developing strategic advantages using knowledge, capacity, and assets to obtain mutual benefits for agents in partnerships (Gyimóthy, 2017; Tajeddini & Ratten, 2020). Moreover, research has demonstrated that collaborative innovation contributes to business performance and economic growth (Christensen, 1998; Diamond & Vangen, 2017; Yström & Agogué, 2020). However, not all firms can monetize their innovation and collaboration activities (Ibáñez et al., 2020; Kurdve et al., 2020). Appropriating the revenues that produce the collaborative business models is the central concern for firms involved in a collaborative relationship, and is a strong motivator for maintaining and expanding these alliances (Najafi-Tavani et al., 2018). Two questions remain unanswered in research on the cooperative business model. First, how many members in a partnership are adequate to obtain better performance? Second, who are the best partners to collaborate with? These issues are relevant to practitioners since the answers could guide managers’ decisions about better configurations for collaborative strategies
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: Ibáñez, M.J. (2021). Insights from N-Helix to practitioners. How many helices are enough, and who are the best partners? Academia Letters, Article 2640. https://doi.org/10.20935/AL2640
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Collaborative business, strategic advantages, collaborative innovation, business performance