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Rev.esc.adm.neg A inovação e a cooperação têm estado estreitamente relacionadas como tópicos principais na literatura recente sobre management. A perspectiva da inovação aberta tem considerado a importância de capitalizar os ganhos da cooperação nos esforços para inovar, no entanto, há uma falta de pesquisa empírica deste fenômeno para as economias emergentes.Esta pesquisa teve como objetivo analisar o efeito da cooperação na propensão a inovar das empresas, utilizando dados da Pesquisa Chilena de Inovação. Encontrou-se que a cooperação tem um efeito positivo, estatisticamente significativo, na propensão a inovar. As implicações do trabalho estão relacionadas com a implementação de políticas, já que segundo o observado, o paradigma deve ser deslocado para um meio entrelaçado e estratégico de negócios, que torne mais plausível a participação das empresas em esforços de redes colaborativas. ; Rev.esc.adm.neg L'innovation et la coopération sont étroitement liées dans la littérature moderne de gestion des entreprises. La perspective de l'innovation ouverte prend en compte l'importance de la capitalisation des gains apportés par la coopération dans les efforts d'innovation même s'il existe un manque de données et d'investigations empiriques de ce phénomène pour les économies émergentes.L'objectif de cette étude est d'analyser, grâce aux données fournies par l'investigation chilienne sur l'innovation, l'effet de la coopération sur la propension des entreprises à innover. Nous pouvons constater que la coopération apporte un effet positif et statistiquement significatif sur la propension à innover. Les implications des différents travaux étudiés sont liées à la mise en oeuvre de politiques spécifiques car, selon les observations, le paradigme devrait évoluer vers un environnement commercial aux liens complexes et stratégiques qui rendrait davantage plausible la participation des entreprises aux réseaux de collaboration. ; Rev.esc.adm.neg Innovation and cooperation have been directly linked with main topics in recent management bibliography. The perspective of open innovation has considered the importance to capitalize revenues from cooperation in an intent to innovate; however, there is a lack of empirical investigation of this issue for emerging economies.This study aims at analyzing the impact of cooperation in the propensity to innovate in organizations, using data from the Chilean Innovation Survey. It shows that cooperation has a positive impact, statistically significant, in the propensity to innovate. The outcomes of this research are closely related with the implementation of policies as, according to what is observed, its paradigm should be transferred to an interlinking and strategic business environment, making it more possible the participation of companies in collaborative networks ; Rev.esc.adm.neg La innovación y la cooperación han estado estrechamente relacionadas como tópicos principales en la literatura reciente sobre management. La perspectiva de innovación abierta ha tomado en cuenta la importancia de capitalizar las ganancias de la cooperación en los esfuerzos para innovar, sin embargo, hay una falta de investigación empírica de este fenómeno para las economías emergentes.Esta investigación tuvo por objetivo analizar el efecto de la cooperación en la propensión a innovar de las firmas, utilizando datos de la Encuesta Chilena de Innovación. Se encontró que la cooperación tiene un efecto positivo, estadísticamente significativo, en la propensión a innovar. Las implicancias del trabajo están relacionadas con la implementación de políticas, ya que según lo observado, el paradigma debiese desplazarse hacia un entorno entrelazado y estratégico de negocios, que haga más plausible la participación de las firmas en esfuerzos de redes colaborativas.

Purpose
This paper aims to study the role of absorptive capacities in coopetitive alliances that involve leakages of sensitive private knowledge regarding firms' production processes.


Design/methodology/approach
This paper uses a game theoretic approach to model a differentiated product market in which two firms asymmetrically informed about the economic value of a business opportunity must cooperate to exploit this opportunity. Under coopetition, firms gain access to their partners' core knowledge as the result of inevitable leakages of information. Firms differ in their absorptive capacities, which affects their abilities to leverage this new knowledge outside the collaborative activity.


Findings
Firms with superior absorptive capacities are more likely to devise alliances whose purpose is to gain access to their partners' core knowledge. This opportunistic behaviour does not disappear even if firms compensate their partners for the damages caused by this deceptive business practice. This paper also finds that a highly specialised product safeguards firms with limited absorptive capacities against these opportunistic behaviours.


Originality/value
This paper provides a theoretical analysis of the role that absorptive capacities and product specialisation play in influencing the emergence of opportunistic behaviours in coopetitive alliances. The theoretical analysis underscores the extent to which the risk of opportunism associated with the exploitation of a partner's specific core knowledge outside the scope of the cooperative activity affects not only the nature and intensity of market competition but also the incentives to pursue coopetitive alliances.

Diethyl carbonate (DEC) is an attractive biofuel that can be used to displace petroleum-derived diesel fuel, thereby reducing CO2 and particulate emissions from diesel engines. A better understanding of DEC combustion characteristics is needed to facilitate its use in internal combustion engines. Toward this goal, ignition delay times for DEC were measured at conditions relevant to internal combustion engines using a rapid compression machine (RCM) and a shock tube. The experimental conditions investigated covered a wide range of temperatures (660-1300K), a pressure of 30bar, and equivalence ratios of 0.5, 1.0 and 2.0 in air. To provide further understanding of the intermediates formed in DEC oxidation, species concentrations were measured in a jet-stirred reactor at 10atm over a temperature range of 500-1200K and at equivalence ratios of 0.5, 1.0 and 2.0. These experimental measurements were used to aid the development and validation of a chemical kinetic model for DEC.The experimental results for ignition in the RCM showed near negative temperature coefficient (NTC) behavior. Six-membered alkylperoxy radical (RO˙2) isomerizations are conventionally thought to initiate low-temperature branching reactions responsible for NTC behavior, but DEC has no such possible 6- and 7-membered ring isomerizations. However, its molecular structure allows for 5-, 8- and 9-membered ring RO˙2 isomerizations. To provide accurate rate constants for these ring structures, ab initio computations for RO˙2⇌Q˙OOH isomerization reactions were performed. These new RO˙2 isomerization rate constants have been implemented in a chemical kinetic model for DEC oxidation. The model simulations have been compared with ignition delay times measured in the RCM near the NTC region. Results of the simulation were also compared with experimental results for ignition in the high-temperature region and for species concentrations in the jet-stirred reactor. Chemical kinetic insights into the oxidation of DEC were made using these experimental and modeling results. ; This work was performed under the auspices of the US Department of Energy by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under Contract DE-AC52-07NA27344. The work at LLNL work was supported by the US Department of Energy, Office of Vehicle Technologies and the Office of Basic Energy Sciences, and the authors thank program managers Gurpreet Singh, Kevin Stork, and Wade Sisk. The work performed at CNRS was funded via the ERC Advanced Grant "2G-CSafe: Combustion of Sustainable Alternative Fuels for Engines used in aeronautics and automotives", Grant Agreement Number 291049 (PI Philippe Dagaut). Co-author SMS acknowledges fellowship support from NSERC of Canada and from the KAUST Clean Combustion Research Center. Co-author ADPC acknowledges the Ministry of Agriculture, the Government of Cesar, Colciencias, Popular University of Cesar and the University of Antioquia in Colombia, for the doctoral scholarship received. Co-author HN acknowledges the financial support "Young Researcher Overseas Visits Program for Vitalizing Brain Circulation" from Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.