The Collaboration of Innovation Intermediaries and Manufacturing Firms in the Markets for Technology

Lichtenthaler, Ulrich

doi:10.1111/jpim.12068

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“…The only other linkage between domestic and foreign partner types is between domestic KIBS and international customer and suppliers. This is because KIBS, apart from brokering services, also often collaborate with manufacturing firms in order to assist in matching technology sources and technology recipients and by assisting in technology exchanges and collaboration between different manufacturing firms themselves (Lichtenthaler, ). This result therefore does not contradict H1, because it is likely to arise as a result of the matching service that KIBS provide and not because of firms being able to transfer the knowledge gained from collaborating with domestic KIBS to foreign customers and suppliers.…”

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Foreign and Domestic Collaboration, Product Innovation Novelty, and Firm Growth

Hsieh¹,

Ganotakis²,

Kafouros³

et al. 2017

J of Product Innov Manag

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Although prior research underscores the benefits of external collaboration for a firm's innovative output, little research has examined the role that collaboration plays across the different stages of the innovation process. Drawing from organizational learning theory, this article examines (1) how collaboration with domestic partners assists in the formation of collaborations with foreign partners, (2) how knowledge from these collaborations is associated with product innovation at different levels of novelty, and (3) how the relationship between the level of innovation novelty and firm growth is influenced by whether the focal firm engages in open or closed innovation and the origin of the collaborator (foreign or domestic). Three key findings emerge from the econometric analysis of a sample of 1684 Taiwanese firms. First, domestic collaborations assist in the formation of foreign collaborations when the partner type is the same. Second, the level of innovation novelty is associated with the type and geographic location of partners. This study differentiates among noninnovating firms, incremental innovators, and radical innovators and demonstrates that the role of partners changes as the number of countries in which a firm collaborates with each partner type increases. Third, only radical innovation is relevant to firm growth, regardless of whether it is developed internally or through collaboration with domestic or foreign partners. Practitioner PointsManagers will find it easier to form foreign collaborations with types of partners that a firm has engaged in collaboration with domestically.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Foreign and Domestic Collaboration, Product Innovation Novelty, and Firm Growth

Hsieh¹,

Ganotakis²,

Kafouros³

et al. 2017

J of Product Innov Manag

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“…These brokers are actors that grease the wheels of the innovation systems. They function as a bridging agent in the network, facilitating resource sharing between the different collaborating actors (Klerkx and Leeuwis, 2009;Lichtenthaler, 2013). If the innovation organization neither has the network management capacities, nor recruits an organization that has, this form of capacity failure can hinder the success of the OIS.…”

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The Organizational Innovation System: A systemic framework for radical innovation at the organizational level

Lancker

Mondelaers²,

Wauters

et al. 2016

Technovation

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“…The role of patent brokers is to promote the negotiation offering an acceptable option to both organizations. Manufacturing firms may reduce their transaction costs in technology markets by collaborating with intermediaries such as TTOs (Lichtenthaler, 2013). Then Billington and Davidson (2013) post that one of the key roles of intermediaries, apart from the linking seekers to solvers, is related to the distribution of finances involved in the transfer of technology.…”

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Mind the Gap: Lessons from the UK to Brazil about the Roles of TTOs throughout Collaborative R&D Projects

Thomas

Vieira

Balestrin

2017

BAR, Braz. Adm. Rev.

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The literature about collaboration for innovation has reported fundamental activities performed by intermediaries. In this paper, universities' technology transfer offices (TTOs) are placed as intermediaries between academic research and the industry. Our study focuses on collaborative research and development (R&D) projects between universities and industry in order to understand the roles of TTOs throughout the whole duration of the project. The main aim of this paper is to identify the roles of TTOs throughout collaborative R&D projects and suggest some lessons for Brazilian TTOs based on the experience of the United Kingdom. Through qualitative case studies in the United Kingdom and Brazil, the analyses show that both TTOs performed critical activities for collaborative R&D projects. Similar activities at both TTOs were the management of partnerships in terms of negotiating contracts and the protection and licensing of intellectual property. Findings also show that the search for partners in the beginning of the project, the pacifier role of the TTO to help mutual understanding, and the active commercialisation of academic research to external partners happened only in the UK case, which may generate implications for TTOs in Brazil.

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The Collaboration of Innovation Intermediaries and Manufacturing Firms in the Markets for Technology

Cited by 65 publications

References 93 publications

Foreign and Domestic Collaboration, Product Innovation Novelty, and Firm Growth

Foreign and Domestic Collaboration, Product Innovation Novelty, and Firm Growth

The Organizational Innovation System: A systemic framework for radical innovation at the organizational level

Mind the Gap: Lessons from the UK to Brazil about the Roles of TTOs throughout Collaborative R&D Projects

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