Ajlin is interested in strategy, innovation, entrepreneurship, and the growth of enterprises. Her research explores corporate-startup collaboration, which is an asymmetric partnership and a way of open innovation. This kind of collaboration has been an increasingly frequent mode of corporate innovation. When companies tap into knowledge externally, the latter brings innovation opportunities and, at the same time, significant organizational challenges as corporates and startups differ substantially in their strategy, structure, and culture.
Conferences
WOIC 2022 – 9th Annual World Open Innovation Conference
Eindhoven University of Technology, 15-16 November 2022
ON-SITE paper presentation session of “When Opposites Attract: A Review and
Synthesis of Corporate-Startup Collaboration” written by Ajlin Dizdarevic, Vareska
van de Vrande, and Justin Jansen
DRUID 2022 – A hub for premier research on innovation and the dynamics of structural, institutional, and geographic change
Copenhagen Business School, 13-15 June 2022
Parallel paper session presentation of “When Opposites Attract: A Review and Synthesis of Corporate-Startup Collaboration”
written by Ajlin Dizdarevic, Vareska van de Vrande, and Justin Jansen
WOIC 2021 – 8 th Annual World Open Innovation Conference
Eindhoven University of Technology, 9-10 December 2021
WOIC 2020 – 7 th Annual World Open Innovation Conference
Garwood Center for Corporate Innovation, BerkeleyHaas, 10-11 December 2020
OUI 2020 – Open and User Innovation Conference - Virtual Stay in Touch Edition
RWTH Aachen University, 16 September 2020
Publications
Work in progress
Hence, it is crucial to understand how a large corporation effectively manages its collaboration with a startup (dyad level) and a portfolio of startups (network level) to develop or commercialize an innovation. What is the theoretical framework of corporate-startup collaboration, what are the corporate-startup collaboration capabilities, why do they matter, and how do they evolve?