In search of complementary assets: The determinants of alliance formation of high-tech start-ups

By Massimo G. Colombo, Luca Grilli, Evila Piva. 2006

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Subfields: Accounting, Economics and Econometrics, Strategy and Management

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R&D Subsidies as Dual Signals in Technological Collaborations (2019, background): “However, Colombo et al. (2006) and Hsu (2006) find a negative relation, while Chapman et al. (2018) find differential effects of R&D subsidies on collaborative behaviors across firms.”
The value added by government venture capital funds compared with independent venture capital funds (2013, background): “…managerial ‘‘professionalisation’’ of young, innovative firms (Bottazzi et al., 2008; Hellmann and Puri, 2002), facilitates access to specialised professional services and establishes alliances with third parties (Colombo et al., 2006; Hsu, 2006; Lindsey, 2008), thus extending their social capital.”
Venture Capital Financing and the Growth of High-Tech Start-Ups: Disentangling Treatment from Selection Effects (2011, methodology): “…improvement in the ease of access to external resources and capabilities, especially through the establishment of commercial alliances (see also Colombo et al., 2006), because of the certification effect of being VC-backed (77.3% of respondents attributed a score greater than 5 to this…”
The Whole Is More Than the Sum of Its Parts— Or Is It? A Review of the Empirical Literature on Complementarities in Organizations (2010, background): “For example, Colombo, Grilli, and Piva (2006) investigated whether the combination of different specialized resources such as commercial and technological assets by young technology firms yields beneficial outcomes, finding some positive and some insignificant effects.”
Cocreation of Value in a Platform Ecosystem: The Case of Enterprise Software (2012, neutral): “Our analysis and theory differs from this extant literature in significant ways: in our setting, partnerships are valuable primarily as a way of signaling compatibility with the platform rather than as a mechanism of sharing critical information that will improve the innovative productivity of the p”
Firms’ genetic characteristics and competence-enlarging strategies: A comparison between academic and non-academic high-tech start-ups (2012, background): “Moreover, time and financial constraints often prevent NTBFs from acquiring them or building them in isolation (Teece, 1986; Gans and Stern, 2003; Colombo et al., 2006).”