Collaboration in Innovation Between Foreign Subsidiaries and Local Universities: Evidence from Spain

Ros, José Guimón de; Salazar-Elena, Juan Carlos

doi:10.1080/13662716.2015.1089034

Cited by 41 publications

(51 citation statements)

References 53 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…This could be due to the nature of their own mandates, the corporate strategy, Spain's scientific and institutional wealth, and the distance between the origin of the FDI and Spain [18,22,28]. Moreover, it is important to bear in mind that within the group of companies with FDI operating in Spain, those that create competition with local partnerships are in the minority [68]. Another possible explanation is that this type of company is more oriented towards technologies for global use.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 1 more Smart Citation

Cooperation Networks as a Driver of Sustainability-Oriented Innovation

Melane-Lavado

Álvarez-Herránz

2020

Sustainability

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Companies can contribute to sustainable development in a dynamic and globalized market, such as today’s, through Sustainability-Oriented Innovation (SOI). However, to do this implies meeting specific requirements and dealing with greater complexity because of the higher level of sophistication of cooperation networks for this kind of innovation. In this context, to meet the requirements demanded by SOI, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) is considered fundamental. However, it is not known whether their capacity to focus more on heterogeneous knowledge sources, which, thanks to their cooperation networks, are broad and geographically diverse, would have a differential impact on SOIs. Through comparative analysis, this paper attempts to shed light on the possible network differences for companies, with and without FDI, looking to undertake SOI. It focuses on the knowledge framework and geographical scope stemming from cooperation for successfully undertaking sustainable developments. To this end, three networks had to be set up, which include diversity, scope, experience, and frequency of national, European, and global cooperation. The results lend strength to the theory that SOI is favored by European and global cooperation networks if companies have FDI, and by national networks if there is no foreign participation. For this, the role of absorptive capacity is key, understood as a joint analysis of R&D intensity and the skills and education of employees tasked with innovation, and the implementation of new organizational methods. Lastly, it is confirmed that having FDI allows companies to have qualified employees, and better methods and organizational practices in connection with an openness to innovation.

show abstract

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This database has been used because it allows for the study of companies' dynamic behavior [68]. Monitoring the information on the same companies over time is necessary, given that there is evidence that knowledge networks change over time [37].…”

Section: Database and Samplementioning

confidence: 99%

Cooperation Networks as a Driver of Sustainability-Oriented Innovation

Melane-Lavado

Álvarez-Herránz

2020

Sustainability

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Finally, the ownership characteristics of firms are also important to understand their innovative behaviour and the potential of different policy instruments to promote knowledge transfer. In particular, a better understanding of how foreign-owned multinational subsidiaries collaborate with universities in the host country may offer insights to shape knowledge transfer policies (Guimón and Salazar-Elena, 2015). The same applies to stateowned enterprises, the collaborative behaviour of which may be influenced more directly by government prescriptions (Tonurist, 2015).…”

Section: Characteristics Of the Business Sectormentioning

confidence: 99%

Science-industry knowledge exchange

Guimón

Paunov

2019

OECD Science, Technology and Industry Policy Papers

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Countries deploy a variety of financial, regulatory and soft policy instruments to promote science-industry knowledge exchange. While these instruments are often discussed in isolation, they are implemented collectively and may reinforce and complement but also weaken or even negatively affect each other and add excessive complexity. This paper develops a conceptual framework to map policy instruments for knowledge exchange and assess the interactions between them. The framework also considers how national contexts and global trends influence the choice of policy instruments. Policy examples drawn from the EC-OECD STIP Compass database and from case studies show that there are significant differences across countries in the relative importance given to each policy instrument in terms of budget, target groups, eligibility criteria, time horizon and implementation. These differences are also a consequence of different country conditions.

show abstract

“…Em paralelo as questões de inovação aberta e colaboração, a inovação global é uma tendência complementar utilizadas pelas empresas dos países para diversificar e aumentar vantagem competitiva (Narula & Zanfei, 2005). Embora algumas empresas concentrem suas atividades de P&D perto dos headquarters, é cada vez mais frequente identificar empresas globais que utilizam uma network geográfica dispersa de P&D como fonte de novos produtos e processos (Guimón & Salazar, 2014).…”

Section: Sellingunclassified

“…Ao entrar em novos mercados as multinacionais adquirem conhecimentos específicos de produtos e mercados que possibilita a inovação. O processo de internacionalização das atividades de P&D pode ser interpretado como um trade off entre proximidade externa e interna (Blanc & Sierra, 1999;Guimón & Salazar, 2014).…”

Section: Sellingunclassified

Capacidades organizacionais para a inovação frugal

Silva¹

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

In recent years, new types of innovation have emerged in emerging markets. Among them, the concept of frugal innovation has attracted the attention of academics and professionals for its value proposition. Frugal innovation has been considered a new source of innovation, but few scholarly papers discuss the subject in a robust way. This research aims to ascertain the association between certain organizational capabilities that help in the development of the frugal innovation. Prior to this association, it was necessary to demonstrate how the concept of frugal innovation can be measured. In this study, frugal innovation is an endogenous construct of the second order, which manifests the new with fewer resources, reflexively measured by: innovation in cost, sustainable innovation, open innovation and product innovation. Organizational capabilities are the exogenous constructs defined in terms of: production capability, technological capability, human capital capability and marketing capability. Some of these capabilities were considered to be first and second order. In order to verify the relationship between the defined constructs, the methodological procedures adopted in this research can be classified as formal, descriptive and associative, positivistic and quantitative in nature. For the data collection, the survey method adopted was the survey classified as intersectional. The data were collected is composed of 257 brazilian companies of different sectors and sizes. The process of sample analysis and consistency of data collected consisted of the use of statistical techniques of univariate and multivariate analysis. The use of Structural Equation Analysis using the Partial Least Square (PLS) method was more adequate for estimation of model parameters. The results have shown that frugal innovation is a strategy that combines cost efficiency and innovation. Frugal innovation can contribute to a better management of non-renewable environmental resources when oriented towards sustainability. The analysis of the results, showed that of the eight hypotheses raised, only two hypotheses were not supported. Human capital and first-order marketing capabilities were not associated with the formation of frugal innovation. The other capabilities used in the research were shown to be associated to the proposed model.

show abstract

Collaboration in Innovation Between Foreign Subsidiaries and Local Universities: Evidence from Spain

Cited by 41 publications

References 53 publications

Cooperation Networks as a Driver of Sustainability-Oriented Innovation

Cooperation Networks as a Driver of Sustainability-Oriented Innovation

Science-industry knowledge exchange

Capacidades organizacionais para a inovação frugal

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About