Abstract
The purpose of the paper is to illuminate the costs and benefits of crossing firm boundaries in inbound open innovation (OI) at creation of corporate innovative systems, determining thus the relations among types of partners and possibility of an exchange by knowledge between them. The empirical part of research is based on the analysis of poll of heads of holding structures and R&D - managers concerning cooperation of external and internal partners of holding. Results show that depth of cooperation with various partners (universities, consultants, partners in a chain of creation of value, competitors and the firms working in other industries) it is positively connected with innovative activity whereas the number of various partners has negative effects. The main result consists that transfer of knowledge at cooperation softens negative impact of existence of too many different types of partners. The analysis of data confirmed that from what share of the companies attracting internal and external interested parties in processes of innovative activity and what level of intensity of their interaction, depends overall performance of holding.
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