The impact of research and technology organizations on firm competitiveness. Measurement and determinants

Abstract

The objective of this work is to evaluate the impact of research and technology organizations (RTO) on firm competitiveness. To this end, we develop a framework that includes strategies to deal with the methodological problems highlighted in the literature. The main features of this framework are the definition and classification of different types of impacts, the estimation of (rough) quantitative measures of them and the development of a multivariate model to explain the different impacts including the traditional indicators of firm characteristics and their relationships. The empirical work is based on a database constructed from information from the responses to a questionnaire designed specifically to estimate the impact of RTOs on Spanish firms, and information from the Spanish Inno vation Survey. Our findings show that firms are able to recognize the influence of these relationships on different technical, economic, investment and intangible impacts and to roughly estimate their economic impact, and that several characteristics of these rela tionships affect the impact of RTOs.

How Barriers to Collaboration Prevent Progress in Demand for Knowledge: A Dyadic Study of Small and Medium‐Sized Firms, Research and Technology Organizations and Universities

“…Hence, prior research leads us to anticipate that the character and attitudes of the particular department of the university and even of the single researcher, which (potentially) is engaged in collaboration with SMEs, influence the perception of and experiences with barriers. In continuation of the studies of Arvanitis, Kubli and Woerter () and Barge‐Gil and Modrego (), our fifth and sixth hypotheses are formulated as: Such prior collaborations could ‘demystify’ the SMEs as collaborators for the universities and enhance the possibilities of getting in contact with the SMEs. The line of argument in Hypotheses 5 and 6 is similar to the arguments on the essence of human resources, increasing returns and learning curves presented under the discussion of the barriers of SMEs in Hypotheses 3 and 4.…”

Performance of knowledge interactions between public research centres and industrial firms in Spain: a project-level analysis

“…Outcomes may be complex, multidimensional and indirect (Ham and Mowery 1998;Bozeman 2000;Lambrecht and Pirnay 2005), making their measurement in terms of the effects of PRCfirm relationships challenging (Arvanitis et al 2008;Enkel et al 2009;Barge-Gil and Modrego 2010). To account for these features, several authors recommend using multiple measures (Rogers and Bozeman 1997;Bizan 2003;Dyer et al 2007;Jaffe 2008), and especially a combination of subjective and objective indicators (Caloghirou et al 2003).…”

La relación entre las empresas españolas y el CSIC: motivaciones, mecanismos y beneficios desde la perspectiva empresaria

“…Así, en una parte de los estudios existentes hasta el momento es manifiestamente visible la preocupación por el uso de medidas de impacto económico o de valor añadido, cuando en realidad, los efectos de la interacción público-privada son observables en distintos ámbitos de la empresa (Barge-Gil y Modrego, 2011;De Fuentes y Dutrénit, 2012), trascendiendo, por tanto, a esta mirada reduccionista.…”