Collaborative Innovation and Dynamic Capabilities: A Systematic Literature Review

Abstract

Adapting to the business environment and surviving in the digital economy requires businesses to innovate and rethink their strategy more often than before. This is complex for all organizations, but even more so for SMEs. Collaborative Innovation (CI) offers ways to overcome the scarcity of resources, typical in the context of SMEs. However, most of time CI requires strategic changes to adopt and integrate innovation. Literature suggests that Dynamic Capabilities (DC), which include sensing, seizing and resources reconfiguration capabilities, may help businesses in strategic changing. More, DC seem to support CI since the same capabilities are needed. Although both CI and DC have been well articulated in the literature, empirical evidence supporting their relationship is scarce. Our study contributes to reducing this gap by conducting an exploratory study based on a Systematic Literature Review. The objective of this paper is to explore the relationship between CI and DC.