%0 Journal Article %T Interfirms Collaboration - the Basis for Interorganizational Innovation %A Raluca ZOLTAN %J Annals of Dun£¿rea de Jos University. Fascicle I : Economics and Applied Informatics %D 2010 %I Dunarea de Jos University of Galati %X In the current economic environment, interfirm collaboration for innovation is increasingly present because of the opportunities for growth and development that it offers to the partners involved and it is included in the company¡¯s strategy, designed primarily to obtain high competitiveness. This paper aims to highlight the forms/modalities of inter-firm collaboration through which interorganizational innovation is achieved (strategic alliances, strategic entrepreneurship), and organizational levels at which this occur (subsidiaries of multinational organizations, departments of R & D). %K innovation %K interfirm collaboration %K interorganizational innovation %K coinnovation %K incremental innovation %K radical innovation %K transformational leadership %K strategic alliance %K strategic entrepreneurship %U http://www.ann.ugal.ro/eco/Doc2010/Zoltan.pdf