Science-industry R&amp;D cooperation effects on firm’s appropriation strategy

Milesi, Darío; Verre, Vladimiro; Petelski, Natalia

doi:10.1108/ejim-07-2015-0058

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“…Another type of agreement is that made with partners such as universities and public research institutions as the way to access scientific and technological knowledge (Archibugi and Coco, 2004;Milesi et al, 2017). The lack of technological and research knowledge, as well as the lack of technological infrastructures, are the main motivation to cooperate with these partners.…”

Section: Rq1 Do the Obstacles Of Innovation Affect The Decision To Cmentioning

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“…Arranz and Fernandez de Arroyabe (2008) summarize the importance of cooperation with clients in that it provides necessary knowledge and helps to find the right balance between performance and price; provides an understanding of user behaviour that may be important for the refinement of innovation; and it improves the possibilities for innovation to be accepted and adopted by other companies. Another type of agreement is that made with partners such as universities and public research institutions as the way to access scientific and technological knowledge (Archibugi and Coco, 2004;Milesi et al, 2017). The lack of technological and research knowledge, as well as the lack of technological infrastructures, is the main motivation to cooperate with these partners.…”

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“…Cooperation for innovation between firms and institutions is becoming increasingly important because this can create reciprocal benefits for all parties involved and for society in general. Defined as the union of two or more parties, institutions or individuals, which jointly pursue innovation objectives (Doz et al, 2000;Serrano-Bedia et al, 2010;Milesi et al, 2017), cooperation for innovation has attracted considerable attention from academics, entrepreneurs and policy-makers since the pioneering work of Hagedoorn (1993). In addition, from the 1990s, scientific and technological policy in Europe, the USA or Japan has advanced decisively towards the promotion of cooperation in R&D and innovation projects between companies, universities and other research institutes (Takayama et al, 2002;Archibugi and Coco, 2004;López, 2008;Abramovsky et al, 2009;Poutanen et al, 2016).…”

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Obstacles of innovation and institutional support in the cooperation agreements

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2019

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze the effects of obstacles and institutional factors on the cooperation for innovation. The collaboration between different types of organizations has been seen as a strategy that allows the firms to obtain reciprocal benefits, and that incentivises innovation. However, following D’Este et al. (2012) and Antonioli et al. (2017), the authors assume that the decision to cooperate is perceived as a strategy to overcome the obstacles and barriers of the innovation process. Design/methodology/approach The authors analyze these questions in the frame of the PITEC-2013 data that covers the period 2012–2013 and includes 5,461 Spanish innovative companies. Findings The results support that an important drive for the firm’s cooperation is to overcome the obstacles of the innovation process. Moreover, the type of partner for cooperation is influenced by the different perception that those companies have on the obstacles to innovation. Additionally, results contribute to the regional literature with new empirical evidence to characterize regions in terms of innovation. Such factors shed new light about the intensity of regional innovation and variables of the cooperation pattern. Originality/value Considering that a fourth of the Spanish companies develop technological cooperation agreements (PITEC, 2013), it is still observed that the level of cooperation and their results are lower with respect to other countries in the environment, therefore to analyze the role of cooperation agreements, evaluating the factors that characterize the dynamics of these agreements, is a critical research question for the Spanish economy.

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Section: Rq1 Do the Obstacles Of Innovation Affect The Decision To Cmentioning

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“…The government relationships are also found to have a positive effect on institutional legitimacy. There are multiple ways in which public R&D institutions may constructively and usefully collaborate with firms and industrial clusters, thus contributing toward innovation, technology transfer and commercialization (Milesi et al , 2017; Jin et al , 2017; Suzuki et al ., 2017; Castellanos et al , 2004; Alvarado-Vargas et al , 2017; Carayannis et al , 2014; Rao et al , 2012; Mikulskiene, 2010; Mu and Benedetto, 2011). The study results and the CA maps are a guide to forge such alliances by identifying strategic groupings of laboratories as also identifying the stand-alone ones.…”

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Tacit and explicit knowledge management and assessment of quality performance of public R&D in emerging economies

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Mitra

2018

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Purpose The authors investigate the relationship between the structure and the functioning of scientific and technical (S&T) personnel and the quality research and development (R&D) performance output of laboratories functioning under the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), India. The purpose of this paper is to examine how rapid economic and social changes and the demand for better accountability are addressed by public R&D institutions in a specific developing economy. Design/methodology/approach The authors use the functions performed by the S&T personnel as indicators of their tacit knowledge. The authors use data from 27 different CSIR laboratories to analyze the specific functions carried out by knowledge workers (S&T personnel) in order to gauge the internal strengths and weaknesses of individual laboratories in different functional areas. The authors use the following measures to tap the quality R&D performance of these laboratories – number of Indian patents filed and granted, number of foreign patents filed and granted, and the number of published papers figuring among the top 50 CSIR publications in specific research areas over an extended period of 11 years (2003-2004 to 2013-2014). Findings The findings show that there is no readymade formula for identifying improvements in quality performance by a research laboratory, given a particular set of S&T worker profile in terms of the six functions defined in the study. The top-performing laboratories have excellent patent as well as publication record reinforcing the point that innovation encompasses both basic and applied research with success depending upon strategically emphasizing the different components of the innovation process. Research limitations/implications The scope of the present research work is limited by the choice of the quality R&D performance measures adopted in the study that could be further expanded to better tap the social accountability of these public-funded institutions. In addition, inclusion of all CSIR laboratories in the study framework would add value to the study findings. The research highlights the importance of tacit knowledge management and organizational learning as central features of strategic organization development for technology practices incorporating R&D work, the support of pilot plants, experimental field stations, and engineering and design units. Practical implications The paper has particular implications for the leadership and management of public R&D organizations and public policy formulation for innovation in an emerging developing economy context. Originality/value This study extends the extant literature by drawing upon the role of tacit knowledge and organizational learning to inform the empirical research on managing public R&D and the innovations that result from it, in a particular emerging economy context, that is, India.

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“…Rapid changes in markets and technologies force companies to seek external cooperation to compensate for their R&D resources and capabilities. However, external partners have various resources and R&D capabilities, which may lead to different collaborative outcomes (Kang and Kang, 2010;Milesi et al, 2017). For academia-industry cooperation, differences in culture, goals, trust, absorptive capacity and knowledge background (e.g.…”

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Do academia-industry R&D collaborations necessarily facilitate industrial innovation in China?

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Jiang²,

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Purpose It is widely accepted that enterprises obtaining academic discoveries through R&D collaboration improve their innovation performance. However, it is not necessarily true in emerging economies, such as China and post-socialist countries in Europe. The purpose of this paper is to fill the gap by investigating how R&D collaboration between industry and academia (i.e. universities and research institutes) affects the industrial innovation performance; and whether and how intermediaries moderate their relationships. Design/methodology/approach This paper constructs the research model according to the knowledge production function, and the pooled ordinary least square regression is used to verify our hypotheses. Findings Evidence from a sample of Chinese industrial enterprises in thirty provinces spanning from 2009 to 2014 suggests that R&D collaboration with research institutes (CWR) is positively related to innovation output, while R&D collaboration with universities (CWU) exerts negative effect on innovation output measured by sales revenue of new product (NPSR). The significant moderating role of technology transfer institutions is confirmed in the negative relationship between CWU and NPSR. Originality/value This paper empirically examines the moderating role of intermediary organisations in academia–industry cooperation and industrial innovation, and has practical implications for the government to formulate policies to improve the quality and effectiveness of cooperation between academic and industrial sectors. These results vary in inland and coastal areas, which suggest the policy makers to formulate policies according to local conditions not only in China but also in other countries, like European countries.

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Science-industry R&D cooperation effects on firm’s appropriation strategy

Cited by 12 publications

References 42 publications

Obstacles of innovation and institutional support in the cooperation agreements

Obstacles of innovation and institutional support in the cooperation agreements

Tacit and explicit knowledge management and assessment of quality performance of public R&D in emerging economies

Do academia-industry R&D collaborations necessarily facilitate industrial innovation in China?

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