Returns to alliance portfolio diversity: The relative effects of partner diversity on firm's innovative performance and productivity |
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| Authors: | Tim de Leeuw Boris Lokshin Geert Duysters |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Industrial Engineering and Innovation Sciences, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands;2. Department of Organization & Strategy, Maastricht University, The Netherlands;3. Department of Organization and Strategy, Tilburg University, The Netherlands |
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| Abstract: | This study considers the impact of diversification in types of technological alliances, resulting in alliance portfolio diversity, on various dimensions of a firm's performance, as they relate to exploration and exploitation. Using a large panel of innovative firms in the Netherlands, this study shows that partner type diversity in a firm's alliance portfolio has an inverted U-shaped relationship with productivity and radical innovative performance and a positive relationship with incremental innovative performance. Moreover, the results suggest that a lower level of diversity is needed to achieve an optimal level of productivity compared to radical innovative performance, whereas for incremental innovative performance a higher level of portfolio diversity appears to give the best performance. |
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| Keywords: | R& D collaboration Radical innovation Incremental innovation Technological alliances Alliance portfolio diversity |
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