The Role of Absorptive Capacity in Innovation and Productivity in Chilean Companies: An Adapted CDM Model Across Industries

Acevedo, Juan; Díaz-Molina, Iván

doi:10.4067/s0718-27242021000400022

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“…However, partnerships between SMEs are also significant in the studied network. This result reveals that the cooperation that interests SMEs in the network is not restricted to STIs only, as also evidenced by Acevedo and Díaz-Molina (2021), Barrie, Zawdie and João (2019), Chen and Lin (2017) and Hernández and González (2017). Such collaborations occur in several project areas, with the government agency supporting a relatively balanced set of technologies, or as suggested by Mazzucato and Semieniuk (2017), not choosing a single "winning" area.…”

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Collaborative network of SMEs innovation projects: influence of scientific and technological institutions

Ribeiro

Filho

Machado

et al. 2022

Journal of Technology Management & Innovation

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Public funding for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) innovation projects in collaboration with Scientific and Technological Institutions is still incipient in less developed Global South regions. Within the context mentioned above, our objective is to show a network analysis of Industry-University-Research Institute (IUR) interactions promoted by a government program, identifying its structure and dynamics and the influences played by these organisational actors. The results point out that the program presents effectiveness in establishing the IUR interaction network. Moreover, the network presents a scale-free structure, strong clustering and short distances between the actors. Universities lead as the most central actors, followed by research institutes. Despite the growth of the network with the significant entry of new SMEs, there is no evidence that this evolution contributes to improving its network metrics. The conclusions suggest that the network structure and dynamics may imply greater redundancy in the innovation process while allowing greater speed in the flow of knowledge and wider dissemination of knowledge among actors. The hubs (four central universities) in the network suggests an influence as generators and disseminators of knowledge and facilitators of interaction, but they can also limit the dynamics of the search for innovation in the network.

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