Foreign and Domestic Collaboration, Product Innovation Novelty, and Firm Growth
Foreign and Domestic Collaboration, Product Innovation Novelty, and Firm Growth
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DOI：
10.1111/jpim.12435
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发表时间：
2018-07-01
影响因子：
10.5
通讯作者：
Wang, Chengqi
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作者：
Hsieh, Wan-Lin;Ganotakis, Panagiotis;Wang, Chengqi
虽然先前的研究强调了外部合作对企业创新产出的好处，但很少有研究探讨合作在创新过程的不同阶段所发挥的作用。本文从组织学习理论出发，探讨了（1）与国内合作伙伴的合作如何有助于与国外合作伙伴的合作，（2）来自这些合作的知识如何与不同新奇水平的产品创新相关联，以及（3）创新新奇水平与企业增长之间的关系如何受到焦点企业是否从事开放式或封闭式创新以及合作者的来源（国外或国内）。本文以1684家台湾企业为样本，进行计量经济学分析，得出三个主要结论。第一，在伙伴类型相同的情况下，国内合作有助于形成国外合作。第二，创新的新奇程度与合作伙伴的类型和地理位置有关。这项研究区分noninnovative公司，渐进式创新者，和激进的创新者，并表明，合作伙伴的角色的变化，作为一个公司与每个合作伙伴类型的国家数量的增加。第三，只有突破性创新才与企业增长相关，无论它是在内部开发的，还是通过与国内外合作伙伴的合作开发的。
Although prior research underscores the benefits of external collaboration for a firm's innovative output, little research has examined the role that collaboration plays across the different stages of the innovation process. Drawing from organizational learning theory, this article examines (1) how collaboration with domestic partners assists in the formation of collaborations with foreign partners, (2) how knowledge from these collaborations is associated with product innovation at different levels of novelty, and (3) how the relationship between the level of innovation novelty and firm growth is influenced by whether the focal firm engages in open or closed innovation and the origin of the collaborator (foreign or domestic). Three key findings emerge from the econometric analysis of a sample of 1684 Taiwanese firms. First, domestic collaborations assist in the formation of foreign collaborations when the partner type is the same. Second, the level of innovation novelty is associated with the type and geographic location of partners. This study differentiates among noninnovating firms, incremental innovators, and radical innovators and demonstrates that the role of partners changes as the number of countries in which a firm collaborates with each partner type increases. Third, only radical innovation is relevant to firm growth, regardless of whether it is developed internally or through collaboration with domestic or foreign partners.