Collaboration as an Enabler for Digital Transformation: The Helix Paradigm

This chapter illustrates and synthesizes the role inter-organizational collaborationsInter-organizational collaborations play in industry digitalizationIndustry digitalization (Industry 4.0Industry 4.0) by hinging on two of the main theoretical frames that help to understand collaborationCollaboration processes; the HelixHelix and Networks ParadigmsNetworks paradigms. It also offers empirical evidence through five cases of collaborative European and Regional innovationInnovation projects that illustrate how insights from both paradigmsParadigms can foster digitalization processesDigitalization processes. More precisely, we dive into the successes and failures of these cases to unveil not only what strategies managers and firms should engage in but also what issues need to be avoided. This chapter provides both theoretical and practical contributions. Additionally, policymakers, researchers and professionals can also hinge on the examples presented in this chapter to better understand the effects of collaborative networksCollaborative networks on innovationInnovation and growth.