Description
No company can maintain a leadership position in every knowledge domain that is potentially relevant to its businesses, making collaboration an essential innovation competency. Yet most partnerships fail to achieve their objectives. We identify when partnership is most likely to produce valuable inventions and breakthrough products.
Contributors
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Susan K. Cohen, Katz Graduate School of Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh
Susan K. Cohen is Associate professor of organizations and entrepreneurship at the Katz Graduate School of Business, University of Pittsburgh. She received her PhD from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, and her B.S. from Clarkson University. Prior to graduate school, Susan worked as a consultant in Accenture’s information systems practice and then for Sage Software as a product development manager. Her research interests include the roles of collaboration, experience, and leadership in shaping how firms invent and commercialize innovations, compete and adapt, and create new businesses through technological innovation. She has published in academic journals including Strategic Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Organization Science, Research Policy, and Technological Forecasting and Social Change.