Abstract
Companies are increasingly discovering the potential of collaborating with others to create innovative products - often across industries - by combining their specializations in a unique way. A pre-condition for the success of these ventures is to build a common knowledge base, usually by duplicating selected parts of the partner’s knowledge. In this article, a case study and a quantitative study seek to elaborate on the unanswered question: Which building blocks constitute a common knowledge base?
Schulze, Anja