Abstract
This paper suggests usefulness of intermediary company in business creation of high-tech startups that has peripheral capabilities and has organization of implementing core capabilities, and clarifies conditions and confines for intermediary company that is able to promote business creation of them. In existing studies, a lot of researchers indicate usefulness to collaborate with advanced user firm to create business in high-tech startups. These studies are discussing on usefulness and/or role of collaboration. High-tech startups, on the one hand, lack social trust, and have difficulty to form inter-company network with advanced user firm. Therefore, they cannot form inter-company network that build on the relationship of trust. In this surroundings, in semiconductor industry, semiconductor distributor formed inter-company network that build on the relationship of trust between high-tech startups and advanced user firm in a short period.
