University-industry innovation collaboration: Reconceptualization

Rajalo, Sigrid; Vadi, Maaja

doi:10.1016/j.technovation.2017.04.003

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“…An analysis of prior research [1][2][3] suggests that the systems available globally have offered no possibilities to execute a multi-variant design and a multiple criteria assessment of alternative iterative life cycles of U-I partnerships, calculate their market and fair value, conduct online negotiations, and select options that offer the best efficiency. Proposing a process-oriented framework that allows overcoming these limitations is the main contribution of this study to theory and practice.…”

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“…Analyses of university-industry partnership sustainability (UIPS) have been discussed from different perspectives over the years [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9]. This phenomenon is influenced by different integrated macro-level contexts (e.g., supply and demand, regulations, financing, taxes, culture, tradition, market, climate, political, demographics, and technology).…”

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An Evaluation System for University–Industry Partnership Sustainability: Enhancing Options for Entrepreneurial Universities

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Abstract:The concept of university-industry partnership sustainability (UIPS) stands for well-adjusted progress among key players from universities and industry by sustaining their welfare, both in the present and in the future. This paper sought to develop an evaluation system for UIPS. The need for such a system is justified at three levels: the micro level (i.e., research and innovation performance, transfer and absorptive capability, and technology development), the meso level (i.e., institutional arrangements, communication networks, and local and indigenous rules) and the macro level (i.e., supply and demand, regulations, financing, taxes, culture, traditions, market, climate, politics, demographics, and technology). The UIPS evaluation system developed in this study offers the possibility of calculating a fair value of UIPS and providing recommendations for improving university-industry (U-I) partnerships. This can be of great importance for entrepreneurial universities that would like to strengthen their corporate links and/or reduce/reverse the "hollowing effect" of globalisation in disadvantaged regions. Additionally, this paper also contains discussions on the advantages, limitations, and managerial implications of this proposal.

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“…Recently, researches have emphasized the potential for universities as a source of external knowledge in firms' innovation processes (Rajalo and Vadi, 2017). The purpose of this study was to examine the effectiveness of university-industry links as an innovation strategy, paying special attention to those interactions that imply a higher level of relational involvement -namely R&D contracting and cooperation -and taking into account the degree of novelty of the innovation outcome.…”

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University industry links and product innovation: cooperate or contract?

Vega-Jurado

Kask

Manjarrés-Henríquez

2017

Journal of Technology Management & Innovation

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Abstract:The role of universities in product innovation has received considerable attention over the past decade. However, little is known about how the type of formal university-firm interaction predicts innovative performance and the degree of novelty of new products. This research differentiates two forms of firm high-relational interaction with universities: R&D contracting and cooperation. We exploit the panel structure of a dataset of 5,858 Spanish manufacturing firms with fixed-effects models. The empirical analysis finds that, although both contracting and cooperation predict product innovative performance, the two activities differ in the degree of novelty of new product outcomes. The implications are that the codified nature and asymmetric scope of R&D contracting is more suitable for exploitative innovation, resulting in product innovation that is incremental in nature. On the other hand, the possibility to exchange and create tacit knowledge and the explorative nature of R&D cooperation provide firms with the opportunity to better access the broad knowledge base of universities, leading to product innovations with a higher degree of novelty.

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“…These appropriation issues often result in knowledge exchange being limited to explicit knowledge, and thus excluding tacit knowledge exchange [36]. Empirical studies on R&D cooperation usually report the smallest number of firms cooperating with competitors (see, e.g., [14,15]) given that trust has been recognized as the necessary success factor for R&D cooperation [15,35,37,[39][40][41][42]. However, although firms avoid collaborating with competitors, this type of collaboration is most frequently found in high-technology sectors, as firms in these sectors are continuous innovators, engaged in large and risky R&D investments.…”

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Collaboration with External Organizations and Technological Innovations: Evidence from Spanish Manufacturing Firms

Radičić

Pinto

2019

Sustainability

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Based on the two knowledge dimensions of availability and accessibility, this study investigates the influence of cooperation with external organizations on technological, product, and process innovations. Using longitudinal data from Spanish manufacturing firms, we estimate dynamic random-effects probit models and thus take into account that technological innovations exhibit persistent behavior. We find that cooperation with suppliers and universities is positively associated with both product and process innovations. However, sectoral analysis according to technological intensity reveals that cooperation with suppliers increases the propensity to technological innovation in industries with a higher degree of technological intensity, while cooperation with universities increases the likelihood of innovation in industries with a lower degree of technological intensity. Moreover, empirical results indicate a high degree of true or genuine state dependence in both types of innovations. Based on these findings, we discuss the theoretical, managerial, and policy implications of the study.

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University-industry innovation collaboration: Reconceptualization

Cited by 191 publications

References 67 publications

An Evaluation System for University–Industry Partnership Sustainability: Enhancing Options for Entrepreneurial Universities

An Evaluation System for University–Industry Partnership Sustainability: Enhancing Options for Entrepreneurial Universities

University industry links and product innovation: cooperate or contract?

Collaboration with External Organizations and Technological Innovations: Evidence from Spanish Manufacturing Firms

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