Corporate-startup Collaboration: Its Diffusion to and within the Firm

What is it about?

In an Age of digital transformation of corporations, startup collaboration as an avenue for corporate innovation has increased in importance. However, the diffusion of corporate-startup collaboration models, to and within firms, is not well researched. The purpose of this paper is to view a corporate-startup collaboration model as an organizational innovation and thereby, by using an established framework for the diffusion of organizational innovations on a real case, ‘FirstBuild’, improve our understanding of how this type of organizational innovations is diffused to and within firms. The theoretical contribution of this paper is to be the first study to investigate the diffusion of corporate-startup collaboration models to and within firms and thereby fill the knowledge gap on how this type of innovation can diffuse to and within a single firm. This is of relevance for both corporations as well as policy makers in an ongoing transformation of countries and their large firms.

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