Definitions

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  • noun A relationship between two companies involving competition in some segments and cooperation 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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Blend of co-operation and competition

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Examples

  • They call it "co-opetition", the combination of cooperation and competition.

    Carolyn Ziel: Reach Out and Touch Someone -- With Your Telephone Carolyn Ziel 2011

  • They call it "co-opetition", the combination of cooperation and competition.

    Carolyn Ziel: Reach Out and Touch Someone -- With Your Telephone Carolyn Ziel 2011

  • 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

  • New Orleans is also pioneering cooperative competition, or "co-opetition," between schools.

    After the Deluge, A New Education System Leslie Jacobs 2010

  • 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

  • Such international "co-opetition" might be the most realistic way forward on the global environment.

    Greening Sovereign Wealth Funds 2009

  • The age of co-opetition on the Internet is quickly coming to an end.

    2006 May « Squash 2006

  • 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

  • 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.

    The crumbling world of co-opetition « Squash 2006

  • 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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