Are firms interested in collaborating with universities? An openinnovation perspective in countries of the South West European Space
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Fernández López, S., Pérez Astray, B., Rodeiro Pazos, D. & Calvo, N. (2015), Are firms interested in collaborating with universities? An open-innovation perspective in countries of the South West European Space. Service Business, 9, 637–662. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11628-014-0243-0
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[Abstract]: This paper explores the determinants of a firm’s interest in collaborating with
universities and whether they differ by the technological level of the company’s
industry. Based on the conceptual framework of Open Innovation (OI) model, it is
included some aspects related to the transaction costs and roles of innovation diffusion
that justifies the study of firm´s interest as previous step of an open-innovation relation
among firms and partners. The evidence is based on data collected through semistructured interviews between January 2009 and October 2009, on a sample of 375
firms from three countries: Spain, Portugal and France. The results indicate that more
innovative firms tend to be more interested in collaborating with universities. The paper
provides evidence that country factors also affect a firm’s intention of collaborating
with universities. Finally, the results show that the determinants of a high-tech firm’s
attitudes to cooperation differ from those found in a non high-tech firm. In the future,
the study of the determinants of those firms’ formal decision to cooperate may let us to
understand whether the driving forces of both interest in and decision to cooperate
differ.
Palabras chave
University industry collaboration
Innovation transfer
R&D
Academic entrepreneurship
Innovation transfer
R&D
Academic entrepreneurship
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1862-8508