| dc.description.abstract | The blue economy has been recognized for its potential to meet future requirements
and represent immense opportunities for economic growth, employment and
sustainable development. Emerging ocean industries are particularly expecting
significant economic growth in the years to come, due to powerful incentives to
innovate. Uncertainty in the regulatory and emerging environment, as well as urgent
need for innovations that can replace current unsustainable solutions, causes
industry players to increasingly seek collaboration with external partners. To meet
requirements for future industrial sustainability, collaboration between new and
established ventures may pose unique opportunities to increase its potential. For a
collaboration to be successful, both parties should be committed, but this has been
deemed challenging due to their diverse capabilities and structures. Efficient
coordination and management of inter-organizational learning in partnerships is
thus needed for collaboration to truly impact the sustainability of an industry.
Accelerator programs are a solution for new ventures to connect with relevant
industry ecosystems, including established ventures. These introductions might be
crucial to create maximum value of collaboration, due to their ability to decrease
challenges related to resource limitations, which otherwise would be difficult to
achieve value from new ventures’ sustainable ideas. By participating, they are
building possibilities for themselves that could form future collaborations that may
not have happened without the learning outcomes from an accelerator program. The
defined research questions are explained below. | en_US |
