Coping with coopetition—Facing dilemmas in cooperation for sustainable development: The case of the Dutch smart grid industry
研究了企业如何在创新生态系统中与竞争对手合作以实现可持续发展，通过荷兰智能电网行业的案例，揭示了企业如何从一开始就采取预防措施来最小化竞合风险。
Abstract This paper is amongst the first to examine coopetition strategy for sustainable development at the network level. Companies who want to successfully implement complex innovative technologies that support sustainable development need to collaborate with other actors of the innovation ecosystem, including their competitors, so that they can develop standards, interoperable products, pool knowledge, and resources and bundle forces to compete against other technologies. Collaboration with competitors brings benefits, but also many risks. We investigated how firms cope with these risks when establishing an innovation ecosystem to implement a new technology in society. We conducted research in the Dutch smart grids sector and explored how these firms minimize inherent risks of coopetition. We found that system‐building actors in the Dutch smart grid field not only minimize inherent risks, but from the start of their collaboration they implement so‐called enablers to prevent these risks upfront.