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1. Understanding corporate concerns. Barriers and challenges in corporate–start-up collaboration

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Michal Banka, Norbert Chmiel, Mariusz Kostrzewski, Magdalena Marczewska, Arkadiusz Michal Kowalski, Katarzyna Sedkiewicz, and Mariusz Salwin

Subjects
Start-ups, Corporates, Collaboration, Accelerator programme, Management. Industrial management, HD28-70, Business, HF5001-6182
Abstract

Despite increasing awareness of the benefits of partnerships with start-ups, corporates are often hesitant to collaborate due to perceived barriers, resulting in failed or suboptimal collaborations. This paper explores and assesses the key barriers that hinder corporates from successfully collaborating with startups. Based on a CAWI interviews with corporations, it evaluates both the significance and the severity of these obstacles, as well as the challenges involved in establishing effective partnerships. Additionally, the study examines how various corporate characteristics—such as company size, experience with startups, strategic approaches, and methods of engagement—impact the success of these collaborations. The findings reveal that corporates face significant challenges in partnering with startups. Major barriers include difficulties in identifying suitable startups, a lack of understanding of startup innovations, and concerns over financial risks associated with startup projects. Other obstacles, though less prominent, include fears of reputational damage if collaborations fail and limited support from corporate leadership for engaging with startups. This research highlights the need for enhanced strategies and knowledge-sharing to overcome these barriers, ultimately leading to more effective corporate-startup collaborations. This paper makes a key contribution by filling a significant research gap in the evaluation of barriers to corporate-startup collaborations, particularly by identifying new and unexplored obstacles that have not been previously documented in the literature. By expanding the catalogue of known barriers and analyzing corporate characteristics that affect collaboration outcomes, the study offers valuable insights for improving strategies and fostering more successful partnerships between corporates and startups.

Published
2024
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2. Innovation Initiatives in Large Software Companies : A Systematic Mapping Study

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Xiaofeng Wang, Henry Edison, Pekka Abrahamsson, and Ronald Jabangwe

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FOS: Computer and information sciences, Knowledge management, Corporate innovation, innovation initiatives, 02 engineering and technology, entrepreneurship, innovations, Computer Science - Software Engineering, Software, ohjelmistoala, 0502 economics and business, 0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering, Large software companies, corporates, Innovation, tietotekniikkayritykset, ta113, business.industry, 05 social sciences, systematic mapping study, 050301 education, 020207 software engineering, software companies, yrittäjyys, Computer Science Applications, innovaatiot, Software Engineering (cs.SE), Innovation initiative, Corporate entrepreneurship, Systematic mapping, business, 0503 education, 050203 business & management, Information Systems
Abstract

Context: To keep the competitive advantage and adapt to changes in the market and technology, companies need to innovate in an organised, purposeful and systematic manner. However, due to their size and complexity, large companies tend to focus on the structure in maintaining their business, which can potentially lower their agility to innovate.Objective:The aims of this study are to provide an overview of the current research on innovation initiatives and to identify the challenges of implementing those initiatives in the context of large software companies.Method: The investigation was primarily performed using a systematic mapping approach of published literature on corporate innovation and entrepreneurship, which was then complemented with interviews with four experts with rich industry experience.Results: Our mapping study results suggest that, there is a lack of high quality empirical studies on innovation initiative in the context of large software companies. A total of 7 studies are conducted in the context of large software companies, which reported 5 types of initiatives: intrapreneurship, bootlegging, internal venture, spin-off and crowdsourcing. Our study offers three contributions. First, this paper represents the map of existing literature on innovation initiatives inside large companies. The second contribution of this paper is to provide an innovation initiative tree. The third contribution is to identify key challenges faced by each initiative in large software companies.Conclusions: At the strategic and tactical levels, there is no difference between large software companies and other companies. At the operational level, large software companies are highly influenced by the advancement of Internet technology. In addition, large software companies use open innovation paradigm as part of their innovation initiatives. We envision our future work is to further empirically evaluate the innovation initiative tree in large software companies. More practitioners from different companies should be involved in the future studies.

Published
2018
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