Collaboration in innovation networks: Competitors can become partners

Abstract

Organizations need to overcome your competitors to remain in the market more quickly. The innovation provides a strategic advantage for organizations, and benefit society in the form of creating new knowledge and technology diffusion. But, costs and risks required for R and D limit the participation of companies and lead to failure many innovation projects. The collaboration between organizations, which have a common goal, shares costs and risks and increases the chances of innovation project successful. In addition, collaboration allows for many organizations to develop projects that would be impossible to do alone. This paper is a study on Brazilian companies' metrics and indicators of innovation processes obtained in the Technological Innovation Survey — PINTEC. It examines the extent of collaboration affect in the innovation process and suggests, through the use of knowledge taxonomies, the creation of innovation networks as a solution to various difficulties of organizations in their innovation processes.