Competition and cooperation between buyers, target companies and vendors have always been two key dynamics in M&A processes. But a new and unique dynamic of ‘co-opetition’ is increasingly driving M&A ...

I believe the future of our company, and in fact our entire industry, will be significantly influenced by two factors: specialization and coopetition. In an increasingly complex and ...

I was first introduced to the concept of "Co-opetition" in mid-year 2007 by a dreadlocked fellow named Manu Lawrence, who presided over the hip-hop video destination site SandboxTV. According to the ...

The author suggests co-opetition as a future model for collaboration in drug development. Despite the looming threat of shrinking drug pipelines, drug development during the past few years has not ...

Cisco rolled out a series of storage area networking systems that highlights how the company is increasingly starting to play in the total data center stack and bumping into partners. On Thursday, ...

There’s a fascinating term in marine biology to describe the service that ‘cleaner fishes’ provide to other fish, including their natural predators, of removing dead skin and surface parasites; it’s ...

Enterprise cloud computing rivals are teeing off on each other, but the reality is much more nuanced relative to vendor propaganda and a simple tally of wins and losses. I touched on this point last ...