Identify and classify the mechanisms of collaboration of corporations with technological startups through the Meta-syntheses of corporate venturing activities

The purpose of this study is to identify and classify the types and scenarios of corporate venturing based on qualitative analysis of research results in the field of partnership and collaboration of corporations with technological startups. The orientation of this applied-developmental research and strategy type is mixed of exploratory sequential design, in terms of nature and method exploratory and descriptive, which has been done in two stages. First, 352 articles were reviewed using the meta-syntheses method and after evaluation, 42 articles were approved. Then, using COREQ 32-item, finally 34 articles received the minimum required score to perform qualitative analysis of the content of the articles. By reviewing the articles, 89 interaction methods were extracted and after examining the content and classification based on the dimensions of corporate venturing, defining the mechanism and collaboration, finally 11 collaborative mechanisms were identified. in order to confirm and validate the research results, by referring to 15 experts and receiving their opinions in two stages of fuzzy Delphi, 11 mechanisms were finally approved. The results showed that methods such as corporate incubator, corporate accelerators, startup programs and corporate hackaton and spin-along in recent years have been remarkable as modern collaboration methods of corporate with startups