Definitions
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- noun A relationship between two
companies involvingcompetition in some segments andcooperation in others. - noun Conflict over how to divide up the benefits produced by cooperation, as for example in labor-management relations.
Etymologies
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Examples
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They call it "co-opetition", the combination of cooperation and competition.
Carolyn Ziel: Reach Out and Touch Someone -- With Your Telephone Carolyn Ziel 2011
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They call it "co-opetition", the combination of cooperation and competition.
Carolyn Ziel: Reach Out and Touch Someone -- With Your Telephone Carolyn Ziel 2011
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Nor is it proper for scientific endeavors and applications to proceed walled-off from one another in a federal appropriations environment; that isolation undermines the swirling competition, cooperation and "co-opetition" and integration needed for the U.S. industries to surge and to stand up against overseas competition.
Mis-State Of The Union Wayne Crews 2011
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New Orleans is also pioneering cooperative competition, or "co-opetition," between schools.
After the Deluge, A New Education System Leslie Jacobs 2010
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In the past, when big tech companies made similar incursions into others 'businesses, they often dismissed it as "co-opetition," meaning they planned to compete in some areas and cooperate in others.
As Growth Slows, Ex-Allies Square Off in a Tech Turf War 2009
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Such international "co-opetition" might be the most realistic way forward on the global environment.
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The age of co-opetition on the Internet is quickly coming to an end.
2006 May « Squash 2006
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But, I just have a feeling that when you combine this crumbling world of co-opetition with some genuine innovation which I'm sure is lurking out there that “best-of-breed”, focused plays have to have a shot.
2006 May « Squash 2006
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But, I just have a feeling that when you combine this crumbling world of co-opetition with some genuine innovation which I'm sure is lurking out there that “best-of-breed”, focused plays have to have a shot.
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But make no bones about the fact that as soon as the competition side of the scales starts to tip that way, the whole concept of co-opetition falls apart.
2006 May « Squash 2006
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