Absorbing partner knowledge in R&amp;D collaborations – the influence of founders on potential and realized absorptive capacity

Mueller, Elisabeth; Syme, Lorna; Haeussler, Carolin

doi:10.1111/radm.12395

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“…The new products introduced in the market by these firms do not result from R&D activity outputs. These findings confirm that a lack of technically qualified competences constitutes one of the most determinant constraints to innovation by small firms, and as was stated and reviewed in works [34,[53][54][55].…”

Section: Discussion: Randd Collaboration and Open Innovation In Randdsupporting

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R&D Collaboration, Competitiveness Development, and Open Innovation in R&D

Paiva

Ribeiro

Coutinho

2020

Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity

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The competitiveness of the agro-industrial sector depends not only on its specific performance but also on the character and degree of the innovation performance, vital to added value development and differentiation in the biobased value-chain. This work intends to show, how through research and development (R&D), collaboration is possible to improve agri-food companies’ competitiveness, helping them to integrate biotechnology and offer innovative products. The method used to support the R&D collaboration model developed involves a diagnosis of biotechnological tools use, for developing appropriate solutions from food safety to food quality, improving health, and achieving new ingredients and/or food products within an agri-food Association partners survey results were integrated into the study of R&D collaboration practice. Results show that the companies (wine culture, fruticulture, and olive culture subsectors) inquired do not develop biotechnology research. They were all micro-business with a low volume of commercial billing, and only 27.3% claimed to have developed research activities in partnership with external research centres, but were not associated with higher education institutions. The barriers to the implementation of biotechnology techniques considered more relevant by respondents were access to capital and specialized human resources, which led to reinforcing the R&D collaboration strategy design.

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Section: Discussion: Randd Collaboration and Open Innovation In Randdsupporting

confidence: 88%

R&D Collaboration, Competitiveness Development, and Open Innovation in R&D

Paiva

Ribeiro

Coutinho

2020

Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity

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“…Entrepreneurs' characteristics influence the entrepreneurial behavior significantly (Álvarez-Herranz et al, 2011). Some entrepreneurs engage in companies' inventive activities, which enhances firms' absorptive capacity (Mueller et al, 2020) and spurs firms' survival and growth (Haeussler et al, 2019). These entrepreneurs usually own the dual roles of inventors and founders.…”

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CAN FOUNDERS’DUAL ROLESFACILITATE INNOVATION? – FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF FOUNDERS’ R&D NETWORK CHARACTERISTICS

Dan-ping

Zeng

2021

Journal of Business Economics and Management

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Founders are crucial for the start-ups, which in turn makes it very important to study how founders’ behaviour affects the development of the start-ups. Based on the data of the companies listed on Growth Enterprise Market (GEM) and Small & Medium Enterprise (SME) board from 2014 to 2017 in China, this paper explores the impact of founders’ dual roles of R&D and management on enterprises’ innovation performance from the perspective of founders’ R&D network characteristics. The empirical research reveals that the more an enterprise’s founders participate in the R&D activities and the more central they are in the R&D network, the better the enterprise’s technological innovation performance. It is because the high network centrality enables founders the stronger ability of innovation and opportunity identification and draws their attention to innovation. This research further discloses that the promotion effect is restrained when enterprises obtain more government subsidies and founders have more power. Italso finds that founders’ R&D role does not transform the innovation output into enterprises’ value effectively though the role increases the innovation output, instead, it even restrains the transformation.

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“…The first hypothesis (H1) states that PACAP does not affect the ability to innovate (Leal-Rodríguez et al, 2014;Alves et al, 2016;Mueller et al, 2020). This hypothesis is accepted.…”

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“…Founders are the idea people in start-ups. Although the founder acts as a knowledge absorber (Mueller, 2020), the level of PACAP is higher only if the partner's knowledge base is close to the founder's knowledge domain. Founders also function as knowledge intermediaries who transfer ideas from places they know to places representing innovative possibilities.…”

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How potential and realized absorptive capacity increased ability to innovate: the moderating role of structural ambidexterity

Elidjen

Pertiwi²,

Mursitama³

et al. 2022

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Purpose Digital start-ups have limited resources. With the demands of rapid growth, digital start-ups need to rely on their ability to explore external knowledge and exploit it into swift innovation. Developing absorptive capacity is an alternative to overcome this difficulty. This study aims to demonstrate how the potential and realized an increase in absorptive capacity enables organizations to innovate moderated by structural ambidexterity. Empirical evidence places more emphasis on the impact of absorptive capacity on innovation but still leaves the “black-box” question of innovation and how potential absorptive capacity (PACAP) can achieve realized absorptive capacity (RACAP). Design/methodology/approach This study tests, with a structural equation model, samples collected from 143 digital start-ups in Indonesia. Findings The finding of this study suggests that PACAP influences the ability to innovate only if RACAP mediates it and structural ambidexterity positively moderates the relationship between these two variables. Research limitations/implications First, this study uses digital start-up organizations as respondents. Second, this study explores the role of the structural ambidexterity that moderates the relationship between PACAP and RACAP manifested in digital start-ups organizations that are identical to temporary companies with limited resources. Third, digital start-ups have a fast-growth life cycle, unlike regular companies. Finally, the validated scale is based on data collected entirely from digital start-ups located in Indonesia, which may limit the generalizability of the findings to other industry contexts. Practical implications Start-ups suffer from the ability to innovate that increases their propensity to fail. They overcome this failure by increasing the absorptive capacity of the founding team to improve their ability to innovate. Because of limited resources available at digital start-ups, the flexibility of their management style can overcome these barriers, allowing the pursuit of both knowledge exploration and exploitation in a balanced way. Originality/value Most of the studies explained that the ability to innovate comes from absorptive capacity. In fact, they do not explore PACAP and RACAP and their relationships. Moreover, the studies also indicated that the contextual ambidexterity moderated PACAP and RACAP. Meanwhile, digital start-ups in this study revealed that structural ambidexterity with two dimensions, i.e. shared value, and behavioral integration, enables and positively moderates the relationship between PACAP and RACAP.

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Absorbing partner knowledge in R&D collaborations – the influence of founders on potential and realized absorptive capacity

Cited by 20 publications

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R&D Collaboration, Competitiveness Development, and Open Innovation in R&D

R&D Collaboration, Competitiveness Development, and Open Innovation in R&D

CAN FOUNDERS’DUAL ROLESFACILITATE INNOVATION? – FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF FOUNDERS’ R&D NETWORK CHARACTERISTICS

How potential and realized absorptive capacity increased ability to innovate: the moderating role of structural ambidexterity

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