TY - JOUR T1 - Collaboration Strategies in Innovation Ecosystems: An Empirical Study of the German Microelectronics and Photonics Industries JF - Technology Innovation Management Review Y1 - 2018 A1 - Fabian Schroth A1 - Johann Jakob Häußermann KW - business ecosystem KW - collaboration KW - development and innovation KW - innovation ecosystem KW - innovation ecosystem strategies KW - knowledge ecosystem KW - microelectronics KW - photonics KW - research AB - Effective collaboration between companies and research organizations is key to successful innovation systems. Against the background of digitalization, a shift from traditional innovation systems towards innovation ecosystems can be observed. In this article, we investigate how companies operating in innovation ecosystems address the challenge of collaboration in dynamic innovation ecosystems. We focus on microelectronics and photonics in Germany as examples of knowledge- and research-intensive industries and analyze the strategies of companies to collaborate with research organizations. We explore whether and to what extent companies develop different and new strategies for collaborating with research institutions within innovation ecosystems, on the basis of which we identify two ideal types of strategies. Whereas ideal type A is aiming towards obtaining specific knowledge in order to further develop a particular technology or product (i.e., towards incremental innovation), ideal type B seeks to harness the new and full potential of innovation ecosystems (i.e., aiming at rather radical innovation). Finally, our findings contribute to a better understanding of innovation ecosystems and give managerial implications for collaborating in such systems. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa VL - 8 UR - https://timreview.ca/article/1195 IS - 11 U1 - Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering IAO Fabian Schroth is Senior Scientist at the Fraunhofer Center for Responsible Research and Innovation at Fraunhofer IAO. His overall research interest is on sociotechnical innovation processes, and he is particularly interested in realizing the potential of multi-stakeholder engagement for the development of technologies and innovation. Therefore, his current projects focus on innovation in rural areas, the integration of civil society in research, development and innovation processes, and knowledge and technology transfer. He holds a doctoral degree in Sociology. In his doctoral dissertation, he developed an approach of responsible governance experiments in the field of climate politics. U2 - Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering IAO and TUM School of Governance Johann Jakob Häußermann works at the Fraunhofer Center for Responsible Research and Innovation at Fraunhofer IAO in Berlin, Germany, and is currently doing his doctorate at the TUM School of Governance at the Technical University Munich. He holds a Master’s Degree in Philosophy, with minors in Politics and Economics. He works at the intersection of ethics, innovation, and technology both from a theoretical as well as practice-oriented perspective. In his PhD, he is developing an integrated concept of responsible innovation that combines the ethics of digital technologies such as artificial intelligence with companies’ corporate (digital) responsibility. ER -