Defense of the Thesis of Liher Pillado Arbide in the area of Entrepreneurship
Defense of the Thesis of Liher Pillado Arbide in the area of Entrepreneurship
Defense of the Thesis of Liher Pillado Arbide in the area of Entrepreneurship
Thesis title: Developing relationships between corporations and startups through public-private collaboration: A Basque case study. Obtained the qualification SOBRESALIENTE.
On April 12, the doctoral student Liher Pillado Arbide made the reading of the Doctoral Thesis entitled: Developing relationships between corporations and startups through public-private collaboration: A Basque case study
Director: Dr. Aitor Lizartza Martin (MU - Enpresagintza)
Summary of the thesis:
Digitalization is changing our lives in ways that are yet to be discovered. It definitely is bringing profound transformations not only in our lifestyles, but also how value creation takes place within today’s globalized and connected world.
The manufacturing industry is one of the sectors that most is being transformed given the fast pace of development that digitalization is bringing or more known as the Industry 4.0, changing dramatically the competitiveness of firms, regions or even countries.
The present research is focused on analyzing and understanding a new form of Open Innovation, both from the literature standpoint as well as from the practitioner perspective where a Corporate-Startup collaboration model set up by the Basque Government is analyzed. More specifically, a program that pretends to answer two main needs: accompany existing corporations within their digitalization and competitiveness strategy as well as support the consolidation of startups.
The results of this thesis aim to contribute to understand a unique model of Open Innovation, a regional Venture-Client model that aims to provide solutions to the challenges of the market as well as the society that existing companies of the Basque Country as well as emerging Start-ups are facing.
The applied methodology has been a case study through the Taxonomy of Gomm (2000). This methodology aims to understand and define the particularities of the BIND 4.0 program that the Basque Government set up in 2016 through its department of industrial development, known as the SPRI (Society for the industrial development). Within this research the first three editions are analyzed given the uniqueness of the program.
Given the particularities of the program that is researched within this thesis, a case study of corporations and Start-ups of the first three editions are carried out. Additionally, several theoretical and practical cases are added: Firstly, a theoretical framework that helps understand both on a global as well as regional scale the motivations and characteristics that foster the development of relationships between startups and corporations is provided.
Secondly, theoretical proposals and researched companies are compared from the Open Innovation and corporate-startup collaboration perspective. Thirdly, the unique case of the BIND 4.0 program is analyzed in order to contribute to the knowledge body.