Open Innovation and Startups

• Main Author: Bańka, Michał
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Taylor & Francis 2025
• Series: Routledge Open Business and Economics
• Subjects: Business; Business & Economics; Business and Management; Business incubators; Business mathematics and systems; Corporate accelerator programs; Corporate accelerators; Corporate entrepreneurship; Corporate strategy; Economics; Economics, Finance, Business and Management; Entrepreneurship; Innovation; Innovation ecosystems; Innovation management; Interfirm collaboration; Interfirm cooperation; KJMV6 Research and development management; Management and management techniques; Management of specific areas; New Business Enterprises; Nonfiction; Open innovation; Organizational Development; Organizational theory and behaviour; Startup accelerators; Startup organizations
• ISBN: 1003540368; 1040356621; 9781032889207; 9781003540366; 9781040356623; 1032889209
• DOI: 10.4324/9781003540366

This book comprehensively discusses the cooperation of corporations with startups in the context of accelerator programs. It focuses on recognizing how open innovation can catalyze startups’ development and success, and benefit corporations through access to new business models, innovative products, services and technologies developed outside the R&D departments of large organizations. The book presents a variety of collaboration models, motivations, barriers and potential for collaboration, offering readers a wealth of theoretical and practical knowledge based on the author’s research and experience in managing startup acceleration programs for multinational corporations. Readers will gain insight into the challenges and critical aspects of startup accelerator programs via a detailed analysis of open innovation theory and collaboration strategies. Based on literature and empirical research, the author offers practical guidance on how corporations should prepare and conduct acceleration activities to maximize the potential of innovation from startups and increase the chances of success. Open Innovation and Startups will appeal to scholars and researchers in the fields of innovation studies, entrepreneurship and organizational studies. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-No Derivative Licence (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 International license.