The impact of technological relatedness, prior ties, and geographical distance on university–industry collaborations: A joint-patent analysis

Petruzzelli, Antonio Messeni

doi:10.1016/j.technovation.2011.01.008

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“…Mansfield (1995), for example, using data from 66 manufacturing firms and 200 academic researchers, demonstrates that high quality research universities provide a greater contribution to firm innovation. Furthermore, Petruzzelli (2011) shows that the value of innovation jointly performed by firms and universities, measured by the number of citations to joint patents, is positively affected by the university's reputation for research excellence.…”

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University knowledge and firm innovation: evidence from European countries

Bellucci

Pennacchio

2015

J Technol Transf

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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 AbstractIn recent decades firms have intensified the exploration of external sources of knowledge to enhance their innovation capabilities. This paper presents an empirical analysis of the factors that affect the importance of academic knowledge for firms' innovative activities. An integrated approach that simultaneously considers country-level and firm-level factors is adopted. Regarding the former factors, the analysis shows that the entrepreneurial orientation of university and the quality of academic research increase the importance of knowledge transfers from universities to firms. This suggests that the environmental and institutional context contribute to explain cross-national disparities in university-industry interactions and in the effectiveness of knowledge transfer. In regard to the latter factors, the results indicate that firms oriented toward open search strategies and radical innovations are more likely to draw knowledge from universities. Furthermore, firms belonging to high technology sectors and firms with high absorptive capacity place greater value on the various links with universities. With respect to firm size the estimates show an inverted U-shaped relation with the importance of universities as a source of knowledge. However, the greatest benefits from interacting with universities are achieved by small and young research-active firms.

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University knowledge and firm innovation: evidence from European countries

Bellucci

Pennacchio

2015

J Technol Transf

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“…Shared goals refer to a common understanding of and approach to network tasks (Inkpen and Tsang, 2005) and common perspectives on goals (Masiello et al, 2013). Previous research has demonstrated that successful collaboration between firms and PROs is closely associated with the parties possessing similar competencies and capabilities (Petruzzelli, 2011). Shared culture refers to rules and norms that determine appropriate behavior within the network.…”

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“…Collaboration experience has been found to reduce barriers to university-industry collaboration (Hagedoorn and Schakenraad, 1994). Petruzzelli (2011) found that the existence of previous collaborations promotes trust between academic and industrial partners, illustrating the usefulness of building personal relationships when developing technologies. Relational social capital has been found to be the most important dimension of social capital as a driver of university-industry collaboration due to the effect of trust (Van Wijk et al, 2008).…”

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Collaboration for Innovation: A Case Study on How Social Capital Mitigates Collaborative Challenges in University–Industry Research Alliances

Steinmo

2015

Industry and Innovation

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Universities and public research organizations (PROs) are valuable sources of knowledge on innovation development for firms. Differences in goals and approaches between firms and PROs often create tension and lead to challenges that prevent achieving fruitful collaboration. This paper explores how the development of cognitive and relational social capital can mitigate such challenges and encourage fruitful collaboration between firms and PROs in research alliances over time and further lead to the development of innovations. By comparing three firms participating in a well-established research alliance with three firms participating in an emerging one, the development of both cognitive and relational social capital at the individual, organizational and alliance level is shown to be crucial for effective collaboration in research alliances over time. Common goals and understandings regarding the collaboration and the creation of personal relationships between the employees of firms and PROs contribute to mitigating collaborative challenges, to cohesion and to the achievement of goals to create innovation. Moreover, the presence of at least one of the dimensions of social capital appears to be necessary when entering a research alliance for the first time because cognitive and relational social capital are found to be mutually reinforced over time.

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“…In an OECD report (2007), the existing University-Industry Collaboration is highlighted, where the main focus is on knowledge creation toward economic development. However, in recent years, as Petruzzelli (2011) argues, a primary factor for economic growth is the ability of organizations to create and apply new knowledge in their field of work, and as such universities, as the main source of new knowledge (Davis, 1996;Bramwell & Wolfe, 2005), are their natural partners. Thus, U-IC has become the cornerstone of development in the industrialized world where knowledge and practical know-how are shared, transferred and internalized.…”

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