Co-innovation Dynamics

Introduction

In 2007, Asseat, a firm pertaining to the automotive sector, approached the Captor firm in order to apply one of its sensors to the automotive world. In order to determine which of the sensors would be suitable, and according to which specifications, tests were carried out over a period of 2 years on the basis of prototypes that were provided by Captor. Once the sensor was identified, a contract was signed. It stated that each party would cover its development costs, each party would keep the intellectual property with in its main field of activity, and in the event of success, Asseat would entrust Captor with the product supply that was developed for the first series. Two years later, many technical difficulties were solved and the product was finalized. Another two years later, Captor supplied Asseat with the developed product set, and a new production line was opened on the other side of the world.

Certifname, a start-up created in 2007, developed a system for verifying the digital identity of Internet users. In mid-2009, Numtel contacted it in order to develop a collaborative certification project that combined virtual identity and real identity. Nine months later, discussions began on the cooperation agreement that would be signed in the first quarter of 2011, when the first version of the experimental platform was already completed. Technical problems then began to arise. Six months later, Numtel terminated the cooperation. One month after that, Numtel launched ...