How do collaborations with universities affect firms' innovative performance? The role of "Pasteur scientists" in the advanced materials field
How do collaborations with universities affect firms' innovative performance? The role of "Pasteur scientists" in the advanced materials field
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DOI：
10.1016/j.respol.2009.01.006
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发表时间：
2009-06-01
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影响因子：
7.2
通讯作者：
Sedita, Silvia Rita
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作者：
Baba, Yasunori;Shichijo, Naohiro;Sedita, Silvia Rita
本文旨在研究产学研合作对先进材料领域企业创新绩效的影响，并在此基础上提出了研究机构合作伙伴的原创性分类。主要贡献在于对与不同经验的科学家合作所起的作用的估计。与之前以生命科学行业为实验背景的研究不同，在先进材料行业，最有效的合作不是与“明星科学家”，而是与“巴斯德科学家”。本文作者首先对后一个概念进行了实证检验，以加深对创新过程中产业异质性的理解，并为企业创新战略的制定提供新的见解。负二项回归模型应用于日本455家活跃在光催化领域的公司样本的估计结果证实了这样的观点，即参与以共同发明衡量的研究合作，将提高公司的研发生产率，以注册专利数量衡量。相反，我们发现公司与“明星科学家”的合作对他们的创新产出几乎没有影响。(C)2009爱思唯尔B.V.保留所有权利。
This article aimed to identify the effect of university-industry (U-I) collaborations on the innovative performance of firms operating in the advanced materials field, and by doing so, it proposed an original classification of the research organization partners. The main contribution resides in the estimation of the role played by collaborations with differently experienced scientists. In contrast with previous studies, whose empirical setting was the life science industry, in the advanced materials industry the most effective collaborations are not with "Star scientists", but with "Pasteur scientists". The latter concept was empirically tested first by the authors of this article, to deepen the present understanding of industrial heterogeneity in innovation processes and to offer new insights for the formulation of corporate innovation strategies. The results of the estimation of a negative binomial regression model applied to a sample of 455 firms active in the photocatalysis in Japan confirm the idea that engaging in research collaborations, measured as co-invention, with "Pasteur scientists" increases firms' R&D productivity, measured as number of registered patents. In contrast, we found that firms' collaborations with "Star scientists" exert little impact on their innovative output. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.