Innovation collaboration and appropriability by knowledge-intensive business services firms
Innovation collaboration and appropriability by knowledge-intensive business services firms
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DOI：
10.1016/j.respol.2016.03.018
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发表时间：
2016-09
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影响因子：
7.2
通讯作者：
M. Miozzo;Panos Desyllas;Hsing-fen Lee;I. Miles
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作者：
M. Miozzo;Panos Desyllas;Hsing-fen Lee;I. Miles
本文揭示了知识密集型服务企业的“形式可占用性机制悖论”。尽管有证据表明，KIBS公司通常不考虑正式的专有机制，如专利，从创新中获取价值的核心机制，我们表明，他们仍然是重要的创新合作。借鉴公开交易的英国和美国KIBS公司的原始调查，我们发现创新合作的重要性和正式的专用性机制的重要性之间存在显着的正相关。我们为客户询问证据，因为他们是创新合作最重要的合作伙伴。我们发现，与客户的创新合作的重要性与正式的专用性机制的重要性齐头并进，虽然出现了负面的关系时，企业非常重视正式的专用性机制。因此，适度强调正式的专有性机制可以防止共同开发的知识资产的所有权冲突和知识泄漏，同时也避免了法律的部门对创新合作过于严格的控制可能产生的负面影响。除了探讨正式的专有机制，我们还研究了合同和战略专有机制与创新合作的KIBS公司之间的关系。
We uncover a “paradox of formal appropriability mechanisms” in the case of knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) firms. Despite evidence that KIBS firms do not typically consider formal appropriability mechanisms, such as patents, to be central mechanisms for capturing value from innovation, we show that they are nevertheless important for their innovation collaboration. Drawing on an original survey of publicly-traded UK and US KIBS firms, we find a significant positive association between the importance of innovation collaboration and the importance of formal appropriability mechanisms. We interrogate the evidence for clients, as they are the most important partners for innovation collaboration. We find that the importance of innovation collaboration with clients goes hand-in-hand with the importance of formal appropriability mechanisms, although a negative relation appears when firms assign very high importance to formal appropriability mechanisms. Thus, modest levels of emphasis on formal appropriability mechanisms may prevent conflicts over ownership of jointly developed knowledge assets and knowledge leakages, while also avoiding the possibly negative effects of overly strict controls by legal departments on innovation collaboration. As well as exploring formal appropriability mechanisms, we also investigate the relationship between contractual and strategic appropriability mechanisms and innovation collaboration for KIBS firms.