Collaboration imprint for entrepreneurs in innovative projects

• Main Authors: FAN, Terence P. C., GENG, Xuesong
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2016
• Subjects: imprint; innovative projects; entrepreneurs; collaboration; facebook; Strategic Management Policy; Technology and Innovation
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/5560; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/lkcsb_research/article/6559/viewcontent/115_presentation.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

This paper explores how entrepreneurs learn to improve performance in a series of innovative projects that involve more complexity than those repetitive tasks. We propose that collaborating with a specific set of partners can generate a characteristic creative mood and routine, leaving a distinctive impact on the performance of future project outcomes. Over multiple innovative endeavors, collaborating with different sets of partners helps a focal entrepreneur explore and experiment with different facets of his or her creativity, achieving a variety of outcomes. We propose to test the lasting impact of collaboration using the commercial performance of early software applications (‘apps’) developed for use in the Facebook social network medium.