Cooperation in innovation activities: The importance of partners

被引:258
作者
de Faria, Pedro [1 ]
Lima, Francisco [2 ,3 ]
Santos, Rui [4 ]
机构
[1] Univ Groningen, Fac Econ & Business, Dept Innovat Management & Strategy, NL-9747 AE Groningen, Netherlands
[2] Univ Tecn Lisbon, Inst Super Tecn, P-1049001 Lisbon, Portugal
[3] Univ Tecn Lisbon, CEG IST, P-1049001 Lisbon, Portugal
[4] Univ Nova Lisboa, Fac Ciencias Sociais & Humanas, CESNOVA, P-1069061 Lisbon, Portugal
关键词
Innovation; Cooperation; Community Innovation Survey; RESEARCH-AND-DEVELOPMENT; MANUFACTURING FIRMS; EMPIRICAL-ANALYSIS; SAMPLE SELECTION; JOINT VENTURES; PERFORMANCE; ALLIANCES; COLLABORATION; STRATEGIES; LINKAGES;
D O I
10.1016/j.respol.2010.05.003
中图分类号
C93 [管理学];
学科分类号
12 ; 1201 ; 1202 ; 120202 ;
摘要
This paper analyses the importance of cooperation partners for the development of innovation activities. We contribute to the literature on cooperation in innovation activities that seeks to identify the characteristics differentiating cooperative from non-cooperative firms by proposing a different approach to this problem. We distinguish firms according to their evaluation of cooperation partners in the development of innovation activities. We apply a probit selection model to account for the firm's decision to cooperate (or not). The data we use come from the Portuguese Third Community Innovation Survey. Our estimation results show that firms from high-technological industries, with higher levels of absorptive capacity and of innovation investment, who give importance to incoming spillovers management, and who cooperate with firms from the same group or with suppliers, place greater value on cooperation partners in the innovation process. Additionally, we also find that the factors influencing the importance attributed to cooperation activities are different from the ones behind the decision to cooperate. (C) 2010 Elsevier By. All rights reserved.
引用
收藏
页码:1082 / 1092
页数:11
相关论文
共 51 条
[1]  
ABRAMOVSKY L, 2008, EC INNOVATI IN PRESS
[2]  
Adams J. D., 2004, 10474 NBER
[3]  
Ahuja G, 2000, STRATEGIC MANAGE J, V21, P317, DOI 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0266(200003)21:3<317::AID-SMJ90>3.3.CO
[4]  
2-2
[5]  
[Anonymous], 0522 ZEW
[6]  
[Anonymous], 1992, PROP GUID COLL INT T
[7]   COMPLEMENTARITY AND EXTERNAL LINKAGES - THE STRATEGIES OF THE LARGE FIRMS IN BIOTECHNOLOGY [J].
ARORA, A ;
GAMBARDELLA, A .
JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS, 1990, 38 (04) :361-379
[8]  
Atallah Gamal., 2002, Economics of Innovation and New Technology, V11, P179
[9]  
BARITE W, 2005, INT J IND ORGAN, V23, P279
[10]   Firms' motivations for cooperative R&D:: an empirical analysis of Spanish firms [J].
Bayona-Sáez, C ;
García-Marco, T ;
Huerta Arribas, E .
RESEARCH POLICY, 2001, 30 (08) :1289-1307