Affiliation:
1. Oulu Business School, University of Oulu, P.O. Box 4600, FI-90014, Finland
Abstract
Co-innovation between suppliers and their customers provides important benefits but is not without challenges. Especially in technologically complex industrial context co-innovation projects need careful planning and preparing. Through eight cases, this qualitative study takes the perspective of the supplier and empirically identifies three types of supplier-customer co-innovation projects and for each project type, the supplier’s co-innovation goal, potential matching customer relationships, and related managerial benefits and challenges are described. The results contribute to the co-innovation research by presenting a framework for matching supplier’s co-innovation goals to customer relationship types, which brings out the variety of co-innovation projects that even a single supplier can face and must manage.
Publisher
World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt
Subject
Management of Technology and Innovation
Cited by
3 articles.
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