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Joint Ventures Reduce the Risk of Major Capital Investments

Harvard Business Review

Benefits and risks of co-opetition. The alternative asset ownership and operation models often involve cooperation with a (potential) competitor, as illustrated by the above examples of 2M, ASML, and Here. Cooperation with competitors entails the risk of triggering scrutiny by competition authorities.

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Use Co-opetition to Build New Lines of Revenue

Harvard Business Review

It turns out, where there is money to be made, self-interest prevails, thus trumping cooperation in the process. The way forward is co-opetition, in which entities in the same industries act with what everyone recognizes as partial congruence of interests. There [are] lots of co-opetitions.”.