These issues typically refer to incremental or radical innovations, in which collaboration between competitors provides the means for improving the current products and services or for creating completely new ones (Belderbos, Carree and Lokshin, 2004; Quintana‐García and Benavides‐Velasco, 2004; Tether, 2002). Thus, there is a need to discuss the underlying motives of coopetition and the contingency factors that support them. The evaluation of structura. As such, coopetition requires different antecedents, further information under which different alternative relational conditions which, As all empirical studies, ours has strength and weaknesses. Enter your email address below and we will send you your username, If the address matches an existing account you will receive an email with instructions to retrieve your username, I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of Use, Collaboration networks, structural holes, and innovation, Assessing the impact of organizational learning capability on product innovation performance, A measurement scale for product innovation performance, Interfirm knowledge exchanges and the knowledge creation capability of clusters, Estimating nonresponse bias in mail surveys, The choice of partners in R&D cooperation, The functioning of co‐opetition in the health‐care sector, Protecting intellectual capital in international alliances, Friends or strangers?