Determinants of successful R&amp;D cooperation in Japanese small businesses: The impact of organizational and contractual characteristics

Okamuro, Hiroyuki

doi:10.1016/j.respol.2006.12.008

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“…At the Brazilian case, the TTO helped with financial resources to allow human resources for the research, although the TTO did not get involved directly in hiring staff. Financial funding is a fundamental resource for R&D (Okamuro, 2007); and the help of TTO regarding financial resources was a very BAR, Rio de Janeiro, v. 14, n. 4, art. 2, e170048, 2017 www.anpad.org.br/bar important issue for the existence of the British project.…”

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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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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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“…A number of empirical studies have found a positive impact of engaging in R&D cooperation on innovation performance usually measured by the sales share of innovative products (see, e.g., Lööf and Heshmati 2002;and Belderbos et al 2004b). Other studies find little or no evidence for a significant correlation between cooperation and innovation performance as measured by output indicators (se, e.g., Kemp et al 2003;Okamuro 2007;Aschhoff and Schmidt 2008). There is a tendency for cooperation propensity to correlate positively with input but not with output innovation indicators (see, e.g., Klomp and Van Leeuwen 2001).…”

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How Do Different Motives for R&D Cooperation Affect Firm Performance? An Analysis Based on Swiss Micro Data

Arvanitis

2009

SSRN Journal

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in AbstractStarting point of our analysis is the empirical fact that firms pursue different goals when getting engaged in R&D collaborations, often more than one goal at the same time. Given that firms are driven by different motives for R&D cooperation, the aim of this article is to investigate the differences related to different motives with respect (a) to the factors influencing the likelihood of R&D cooperation as postulated by theory; and (b) to the impact of R&D cooperation on firm innovativeness and firm productivity. On the whole, distinguishing various cooperation motives appears to be fruitful because it allows more differentiated insights with respect to the importance of factors determining cooperation that would remain hidden behind the overall variable "R&D cooperation yes/no". Not only R&D cooperation in general but also cooperation driven by each of the seven motives considered in this paper correlate positively with the sales share of innovative products. With respect to innovativeness the characterization of cooperation by the driving motive did not add much more insights that it could be gained through the overall variable 'R&D cooperation yes/no'.Technology-motivated collaborative activities show a weaker tendency to positive direct effects on productivity than cost-motivated cooperation. In this case, the distinction of several cooperation motives yields some additional insights as compared to the overall cooperation variable.3

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“…One of the injunctive norm measurements was adapted from Nguyen (2011). The study develops the remains on the foundations of Conner andMcMillan (1999), andOkamuro (2007). Four items were used to investigate the effect of social factors on cooperative intention in general.…”

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Integrated View of Inter-Firm Cooperation: An Empirical Study in Tourism Region

Nguyen¹

2015

IJEF

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Many studies have tried to explain the inter-firm relationship especially inter-firm cooperation. However, among them, the role of social influence has gotten little empirical investigation or to be neglected. Using survey data from SME tourism enterprises in Vietnam, the study tries to explain inter-firm behaviours based on integrating theories from different disciplines. The study reveals that cooperative intention is the main predictor of cooperative decision. Further, it confirms the positive influence of social impact and similarities between partners on inter-firm cooperation. The study provides theoretical and managerial foundations because the research addresses the relationships among these constructs in inter-firm context.

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Determinants of successful R&D cooperation in Japanese small businesses: The impact of organizational and contractual characteristics

Cited by 125 publications

References 36 publications

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

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

How Do Different Motives for R&D Cooperation Affect Firm Performance? An Analysis Based on Swiss Micro Data

Integrated View of Inter-Firm Cooperation: An Empirical Study in Tourism Region

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