TY - JOUR
T1 - Coping with coopetition—Facing dilemmas in cooperation for sustainable development
T2 - The case of the Dutch smart grid industry
AU - Planko, Julia
AU - Chappin, Maryse M.H.
AU - Cramer, Jacqueline
AU - Hekkert, Marko P.
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - This paper is amongst the first to examine coopetition strategy for sustainable development at the network level. Companies who want to successfully implement complex innovative technologies that support sustainable development need to collaborate with other actors of the innovation ecosystem, including their competitors, so that they can develop standards, interoperable products, pool knowledge, and resources and bundle forces to compete against other technologies. Collaboration with competitors brings benefits, but also many risks. We investigated how firms cope with these risks when establishing an innovation ecosystem to implement a new technology in society. We conducted research in the Dutch smart grids sector and explored how these firms minimize inherent risks of coopetition. We found that system-building actors in the Dutch smart grid field not only minimize inherent risks, but from the start of their collaboration they implement so-called enablers to prevent these risks upfront.
AB - This paper is amongst the first to examine coopetition strategy for sustainable development at the network level. Companies who want to successfully implement complex innovative technologies that support sustainable development need to collaborate with other actors of the innovation ecosystem, including their competitors, so that they can develop standards, interoperable products, pool knowledge, and resources and bundle forces to compete against other technologies. Collaboration with competitors brings benefits, but also many risks. We investigated how firms cope with these risks when establishing an innovation ecosystem to implement a new technology in society. We conducted research in the Dutch smart grids sector and explored how these firms minimize inherent risks of coopetition. We found that system-building actors in the Dutch smart grid field not only minimize inherent risks, but from the start of their collaboration they implement so-called enablers to prevent these risks upfront.
KW - collaboration
KW - collective system building
KW - coopetition
KW - innovation ecosystem
KW - sustainability technologies
KW - sustainable development
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85060585042&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1002/bse.2271
DO - 10.1002/bse.2271
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85060585042
SN - 0964-4733
VL - 28
SP - 665
EP - 674
JO - Business Strategy and the Environment
JF - Business Strategy and the Environment
IS - 5
ER -
