Determinants of university–firm R&D collaboration and its impact on innovation: A perspective from a low-tech industry

Product and process innovation in manufacturing firms: a 30-year bibliometric analysis

“…Finally, although high technology firms hold a place of importance in any economy, innovative low-tech manufacturing firms still remain important contributors to the wealth of a country. In this vein, Maietta (2015), analyzed the impact between university collaboration in R&D and low-tech firms; the research highlights that product and process innovation are positively affected by geographical proximity to a university, but is negatively affected by the amount of its codified knowledge. However, due to the rapidly changing environment and the advent of new manufacturing philosophy (viz.…”

Educational Involvement in Innovative University–Industry Collaboration

“…Thus, educational collaboration in university-industry relationships may consist of joint educational activities, training, or different kinds of student projects (Arvanitis et al, 2008;Bruneel et al, 2010;Maietta, 2015;Perkmann et al, 2013), all taking place in the relationships between academia and industry. To understand the facilitating practices of educational collaboration in university-industry relationships, this article uses the theory of relational joint learning (Kuwada, 1998;Selnes & Sallis, 2003) as a theoretical framework.…”

Do External or Internal Technology Spillovers Have a Stronger Influence on Innovation Efficiency in China?

“…While UIC can enhance innovation performance [27,34], the nature of knowledge flows among universities, institutes, and industry and the consequent innovation-related benefits may differ according to the interaction channel and innovation stage [9]. Furthermore, innovation actors either complement or substitute each other, in the latter case mostly because researchers in universities or institutes may be time constrained and less able to engage in technology and product transformation projects.…”

“…Maietta [9] examines whether university-firm R&D collaboration has positive effects on process innovation, finding that university policies that aim to commercialize R&D outputs negatively affect regional innovation. Indeed, among the linkages cultivated by universities, institutes, and industry, only contractual relationships have a direct and significant effect on innovation, whereas relational activities simply serve to promote and support contractual activities [26].…”

“…For example, in terms of industry-university linkages, George et al [27] show that companies with university linkages have lower R&D expenses and higher levels of innovative output. Likewise, university-firm R&D cooperation affects process innovation in low-tech industries [9]. UIC-subsidized universities and the presence of a formal UIC management mechanism drive improvements in academic innovation performance [28].…”