The aim of this article is to provide an in-depth examination of the relationship between coopetition and innovation in the European context. After examining the main findings in the literature on the subject, the article analyses the data from the Eurostat Community Innovation Survey (CIS2012), in Germany, and conducts a quantitative study associating coopetition and innovation with a view to observing how coopetitive companies perform in the field of innovation and what characteristics they have. Amongst other findings, the results yield a certain relationship between international coopetition and cooperation with international clients in the public sector, and also governments and international universities, while at the same time showing less interest in collaborating with private partners when coopeting on a domestic level. The size of the firm, the location of the partners or the percentage of employees with a university degree, are just some of the factors that are incorporated into the analysis.
