R&D Cooperation, Partner Diversity, and Innovation Performance: An Empirical Analysis†

By Cees van Beers, F. Zand. 2014

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Capturing value from alliance portfolio diversity: The mediating role of R&D human capital in high and low tech industries (2017, methodology): “Greater product complexity, market uncertainty and the divergent skills sets needed to achieve explorative performance objectives in high-tech industries require highly diverse alliance portfolios (Van Beers and Zand, 2014).”
Did the global financial crisis impact firms' innovation performance? The role of internal and external knowledge capabilities in high and low tech industries (2018, unknown): “Prior studies suggest R&D expenditure as a key factor determining a firm’s capacity to innovate (Shefer and Frenkel, 2005; Van Beers and Zand, 2014).”
R&D Partnerships and Innovation Performance: Can There Be Too Much of a Good Thing? (2016, background): “Building on van Beers and Zand (2014), who stressed that collaboration diversity is multidimensional, we measure collaboration complexity based on the number of different partner types and the number of different stages of the innovation process at which firms collaborate (see Table 1).”