Open Innovation and Startups

This book comprehensively discusses the cooperation of corporations with start-ups in the context of accelerator programs. It will appeal to scholars and researchers in the fields of innovation studies, entrepreneurship and organizational studies.

Michä Bäka is a leader in the Polish startup capital investment market and researcher of open innovation, organizational innovation, organizational structures, startup ecosystems, new venture opportunities and organization-environment relations. He is one of Poland's most renowned experts in cooperation between startups, venture capital funds and corporations. He is the founder and manager of a startup accelerator called Accelpoint. His firm services a portfolio of international corporations like AXA, Santander, Orange and PKO BP. Having received a Doctorate degree in economic sciences, specializing in business management, from the Warsaw University of Technology, Michal is currently an Assistant Professor and the Head of Division in the Faculty of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering. He is also a visiting scholar at the Stanford University School of Engineering.