Effect of Collaborations on Product Innovation

Turbulent environment, increasing competition and diverse and changing needs of customers, highlighted innovation role to promote firms’ competitive advantage. The limitations of knowledge sources and the need to respond quickly to their changes have led them to collaboration. In recent years, researchers have also been studying how and how to collaborate effectively. This paper aims to measure the impact of innovation on knowledge-based companies by typology of types of partnership-based, structured-based collaboration. A questionnaire was distributed among 185 sample companies, and they were asked to specify the types of cooperation. The results show that scientific cooperation is the most important collaboration type in creating innovation and market collaboration has the least effect on creation of product innovation. Of course, in this section, cooperation with the consultant has had a significant effect on the creation of innovation; however, cooperation with customers, competitors and provider has not had a significant effect on the creation of innovation. In the second part, the results also show that upstream collaboration has a significant effect on innovation and downstream collaboration has the least impact on creativity innovation