The relationship between science and industries : comparative study of different technological fields and firms

这项研究旨在通过分析三个日本知名公司开发太阳能电池技术的案例来考察科学与产业之间的关系。结果表明：i)企业科学家和工程师将他们的发现传播给科学界，以确认他们新开发的技术的可信度和潜力；ii)这种行为对于研究资金筹集和客户获取至关重要。虽然许多创新研究人员似乎把重点放在了与公司技术发展相关的科学社区内的信息流上，但这项研究的结果表明，科学的可信度借贷功能对于促进创新非常重要。由于这一方面还没有得到研究者的广泛关注，还需要进一步的研究。

This study aims to examine the relationship between science and industries by analyzing three cases of well-known Japanese companies developing solar cell technologies. The results show ; i) that corporate scientists and engineers disseminate their findings to the scientific community in order to confirm the credibility and potential of their newly developed technologies and ii) that this behavior is essential to research fundraising and customer acquisition. While many innovation researchers seem to have focused on the information flow within the scientific community which is directory related to the company's technological development, the results of this study suggests that the credibility lending function of science is important for promoting innovation. Since this aspect has not received much attention from researchers, further investigation will be needed.