Technological collaboration in product innovation: The role of market competition and sectoral technological intensity

Wu, Jie

doi:10.1016/j.respol.2011.09.001

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“…Wu has discussed several reasons for a competitive environment to have a negative (moderating) effect on collaboration. For example, in high-technology sectors partners in collaborations behave hesitantly and refrain from collaborating because competitors could use knowledge spillovers for their own competitive advantage [102]. Furthermore, a competitive environment can tempt a firm to pursue short-term targets at the expense of a collaborative relationship, in particular, if customers expect a quick response [103,104].…”

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The Effects of Locational Factors on the Performance of Innovation Networks in the German Energy Sector

2016

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Locational factors, like the quantity and quality of skilled labour, demanding customers, competitors, supporting industries, and research institutions, are assumed to have an influence on the competitiveness of a region and the performance of the regional actors. However, few studies focus on this topic from an innovation network perspective in the energy sector. Our study tries to close this gap: a sample of 128 German innovation networks of companies and research institutes in the energy sector is used to analyse the effects of locational factors on the performance (effectiveness) of innovation projects. Based on the distinctions in Porter's Diamond Model, we find that two locational factors-the quality and quantity of the demand conditions and skilled labour-have positive effects. In contrast to the widespread assumption in the literature we could not find evidence for positive impacts on the quality and quantity of the competitive environment. In fact, the effect on performance was negative.

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The Effects of Locational Factors on the Performance of Innovation Networks in the German Energy Sector

2016

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“…Hence, non-high-tech SMEs seek complementary assets to enhance learning capabilities and to boost innovation performance and growth (e.g. Wu, 2012). However, time and resource constraints in developing these capabilities internally would increase a firm's needs to collaborate to access complementary technologies and a wider scale and scope of assets (Teece, 1992).…”

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The effects of R&D intensity and internationalization on the performance of non-high-tech SMEs

Booltink¹,

Saka‐Helmhout

2017

International Small Business Journal

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Research and Development (R&D) investment is seen as a fundamental driver of high-tech small and medium-sized (SME) firm performance. However, the same driver may be constraining growth among non-high-tech SMEs as it increases the level of risk faced by such firms. We challenge this argument by examining the relationship between R&D intensity and performance among nonhigh-tech SMEs. While the size of R&D investments is, by definition, limited in the non-high-tech sector, our study shows that such investments are important for non-high-tech firms. There is, however, an inverted U-shaped relationship between R&D intensity and performance among non-high-tech SMEs. Furthermore, increased internationalization leads non-high-tech SMEs to exploit their R&D investment more effectively to enhance firm performance, provided that R&D investment levels exceed a critical threshold.

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“…On the one hand, partners jointly create new knowledge or acquire knowledge, from one another, that is needed to further develop technology and markets. On the other hand, partners pressure each other to use this knowledge to create and further develop their own products and processes in a better manner than that of their partner (Wu 2012(Wu , 2014. Competition and cooperation thereby become two distinct drivers of innovation (Zhang et al 2010), which are combined in coopetitive relationships.…”

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International coopetition for innovation: Are the benefits worth the challenges?

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International coopetition has rarely been studied in relation to innovation. Further exploration of effects of international coopetition, i.e. the pursuit of simultaneous cooperation and competition, on a firm's innovation performance is especially important as such a relationship is challenging with a high propensity to fail. This observation formed the point of departure for this study, which aims to increase the understanding of the effects of international coopetition on firm innovativeness and how these effects are conditioned on the magnitude of the organizational adjustments a firm introduces. We use an unbalanced panel of 9839 firms that participated in four waves of the Swedish Community Innovation Survey between 2008 and 2014 as our empirical base. We illustrate that firms that cooperate with competitors internationally are more likely to exhibit higher propensity to introduce radical innovations, yet this effect is conditioned upon the magnitude of organizational adjustments. Overall, our study contributes to the understanding of the implications of international coopetition and what a firm needs to benefit from it.

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Technological collaboration in product innovation: The role of market competition and sectoral technological intensity

Cited by 173 publications

References 51 publications

The Effects of Locational Factors on the Performance of Innovation Networks in the German Energy Sector

The Effects of Locational Factors on the Performance of Innovation Networks in the German Energy Sector

The effects of R&D intensity and internationalization on the performance of non-high-tech SMEs

International coopetition for innovation: Are the benefits worth the challenges?

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