Both contain information of a sensitive nature for the research collaboration studied in this paper: some of the information is sensitive to the collaboration itself, as participants were asked after their collaboration with their collaborative partners; other information is sensitive in a political manner.
While collaborations for innovation are expected to bring advantages to collaborative partners, findings in prior studies have been mixed.
Data were collected via 29 interviews with collaborative partners, totaling 30 h, and in situ observations of 7 collaboration meetings, totaling 14 working days.
While collaborations in innovation projects are expected to result in advantages to collaborative partners, findings in prior studies have been mixed.
"Poor" relationships among collaborative partners have been identified in prior studies as one reason for collaboration failure (Timmons 1994).
In general, SMEs more frequently use collaboration and the inbound open innovation process while large companies have more collaborative partners and different channels of open innovation (Vanhaverbeke et al. 2012; Parida et al. 2012).
Similarly, negative effects of social relations in collaborations have been reported in terms of leakage of core competitive knowledge to collaborative partners (Emden et al. 2006).
"We are collaborative partners with the producers," Mr. Moredock said.
"The underlying factor in the few successes we've seen is when the government takes a real interest," said Alan Rabinowitz, chief executive of the conservation organization Panthera, one of the Wildlife Conservation Society's collaborative partners.
Collaborative partners for local sustainability 5.
Therefore, customers are active participants and collaborative partners in the value co-creation network (or service-value chain) [37].
