Variety in the innovation process of UK research and development service firms
Variety in the innovation process of UK research and development service firms
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英国研发服务公司创新过程的多样性
DOI：
10.1111/radm.12386
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2019
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Li X
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Li X
研究与开发服务公司（RDSF）是一种特殊类型的基于技术的知识密集型商业服务（KIBS）。研发服务基金以合同方式向客户提供研发服务，并作为连接研究和市场的知识中介。他们在自己的权利创新，以及支持客户的创新努力;他们依靠自己的创新努力，具有竞争力，并为客户开发新的价值主张。本文探讨了RDSF的创新过程中，借鉴半结构化的采访，创始人和高级管理人员在英国的32家公司。我们的研究结果表明，RDSF在其主要创新驱动力（即它们主要是由市场需求还是由技术机会驱动）和它们追求的结果（即它们的产出主要是为客户提供的服务还是服务和产品和/或知识产权的混合物）方面存在很大差异。确定了RDSF的四个主要方向：（i）基于技术的创新探索者;（ii）以科学为重点的创新探索者;（iii）客户驱动的创新整合者;（iv）开放式创新翻译者。通常属于知识密集型服务业同一小部门的公司之间的这种差异表明，在对这种统计分组的行为进行概括时需要谨慎。
Research and development service firms (RDSFs) are a particular type of technology‐based knowledge‐intensive business services (KIBS). RDSFs provide clients with R&D services on a contract basis, and operate as knowledge intermediaries linking research and market. They are innovative in their own right, as well as supporting innovation efforts by their clients; they rely on their own innovation efforts to be competitive and to develop new value propositions for their clients. The present paper explores the innovation process in RDSFs, drawing on semi‐structured interviews with founders and senior managers of 32 companies in the United Kingdom. Our findings suggest that RDSFs vary considerably in terms of their primary innovation drivers (i.e. whether they are mainly driven by market demands or by technological opportunities) and the outcomes they pursue (i.e. whether their outputs are mainly services to clients or a mixture of services and products and/or intellectual property). Four major orientations of RDSFs were identified: (i) technology‐based innovation exploiters; (ii) science‐focused innovation explorers; (iii) client‐driven innovation integrators; and (iv) open innovation translators. This variety among firms normally belonging to the same, small subsector of KIBS, suggests the need for caution in generalising about behaviour in terms of such statistical groupings.