Determinants of Selection of R&D Cooperation Partners: Insights from Korea
Determinants of Selection of R&D Cooperation Partners: Insights from Korea
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R 选择的决定因素
作者：
S. Hong
如今，由于经济的全球化，中小型企业（SMEs）在国外市场面临更激烈的竞争（例如，FTA）。它们通常缺乏技术能力，往往依赖外部研发活动。因此，有必要探讨哪些因素有利于中小企业与合作伙伴开展研发合作。本文实证分析了韩国中小企业R&D合作伙伴选择的影响因素。根据回归结果，研发劳动力规模大、销售额大、CEO年轻、技术先进、研发设备少的中小企业更倾向于与外部研发伙伴合作。当中小企业生产出不易被他人模仿的产品时，它们更愿意与大学或研究机构合作，而不是与供应商或客户合作。总之，对于韩国中小企业，专用性和资源互补性的论点似乎在他们的R&D活动。然而，前者对于与大学或研究机构的合作更为重要，后者对与供应商和客户的合作更具影响力。本文在两个方面的文献贡献-定量研究的中小企业的合作创新仍然有限，不同类型的合作伙伴的合作决定因素的差异进行了探索，由于数据集的丰富性。
These days, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) face more severe competition in foreign markets due to the globalization of the economy (e.g., FTA). They usually lack technological capabilities and often depend on external R&D activities. Thus, it is worth exploring what factors facilitate SMEs’ R&D collaboration with partners. This paper empirically analyzes the determinants of SMEs’ selections of R&D cooperation partners in Korea. According to the regression results, SMEs with a larger labor force in R&D, larger sales, younger CEOs, more advanced technologies, and less R&D equipment are more likely to cooperate with external R&D partners. When SMEs produce a product that is not easily imitated by others, they are more willing to cooperate with universities or research institutions but not with suppliers or customers. In sum, for Korean SMEs, the arguments of appropriability and resource complementarity appear to work in their R&D activities. However, the former is more important for collaborations with universities or research institutions, and the latter is more influential to those with suppliers and customers. This paper contributes to the literature in two aspects—quantitative studies on the collaborative innovation of SMEs are still limited, and the differences in cooperation determinants across types of partners are explored due to the richness of the dataset.