Examining the interaction between university knowledge and firms’ innovation objectives
Examining the interaction between university knowledge and firms’ innovation objectives
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DOI：
10.1177/0950422219842767
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发表时间：
2019-04
影响因子：
1.7
通讯作者：
K. Nishikawa;D. Kanama
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作者：
K. Nishikawa;D. Kanama
为了应对不确定性，企业采取了“并行路径”战略，将研发成果应用于创新活动的各种目标。考虑到成功创新的另一个因素，从更广泛的技术领域寻找想法可以增加成功的可能性。然而，创新活动中更广泛的知识来源和更多目标的可能组合数量急剧增加。本文重点关注大学知识的利用与目标多样化之间的相互作用，并分析了这种相互作用与技术成果之间的关系。研究结果表明，创新活动中大学知识的利用与产品创新目标多元化之间的相互作用效应呈反U型关系，当企业目标数量适中（而不是很少或很多）时，大学知识的利用会带来更好的结果。
To deal with uncertainties, firms have adopted a ‘parallel path’ strategy in which they apply research and development outcomes to a variety of objectives in innovation activities. Considering another factor of successful innovation, searching for ideas from wider technological domains can increase the probability of success. However, the number of possible combinations of a wider variety of knowledge sources and a greater number of objectives within innovation activity expands dramatically. This article focuses on the interaction between the utilization of university knowledge and objective diversification and analyses the relationship between that interaction and the technological outcome. The results show that the effect of interaction between the utilization of university-generated knowledge in innovation activities and the diversification of objectives has an inverse U-shaped relationship in product innovation, and the utilization of university knowledge leads to a better outcome when the firm has a moderate number of objectives, rather than few or many.