Technology intermediaries in low tech sectors: The case of collective research centres in Belgium
Technology intermediaries in low tech sectors: The case of collective research centres in Belgium
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低技术领域的技术中介：比利时集体研究中心的案例
DOI：
10.5172/impp.2012.14.3.375
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2012
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Mirjam Knockaert
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A. Spithoven;Mirjam Knockaert
摘要企业对合作越来越开放，变得更具创新性。然而，开放创新过程并让知识渗透到公司的边界并不能保证成功。许多中小企业根本没有足够的资源进行创新合作，也缺乏内部吸收能力来获取创新成果。因此，他们充当技术中介。本文将这些特定的参与者定位在创新系统中。此外，它提供了一个深入了解集体研究中心如何帮助公司，其中许多是低技术中小企业，建立吸收能力的研发活动。通过这种方式，本文旨在填补文献中的空白，主要集中在高科技部门的技术转移，从大学到公司的技术转移和政府的举措，刺激技术转移。我们发现，集体研究中心是创新体系中的独特行为者，在一定程度上参与研发和技术转让活动，这取决于其规模、研发预算和成员数量，并旨在加强成员的吸收能力。
Abstract Firms have become increasingly open towards collaboration to become more innovative. Opening up the innovation process and letting knowledge percolate through the boundaries of the firm is however not a guarantee to success. Many small and medium sized firms simply have insufficient resources to collaborate on innovation and lack in-house absorptive capacity to capture the results thereof In Belgium the collective research centres have specialised in various activities related to R&D collaboration and technology transfer. As such they act as technology intermediaries. This paper positions these particular players in the innovation system. Further, it provides an insight into how collective research centres help firms, many of which are low tech SMEs, to build absorptive capacity for R&D activities. In this way, this paper aims at filling a gap in the literature, which has mainly focused on technology transfer in high tech sectors, technology transfer from universities to companies and government initiatives that stimulate tech transfer. We find that collective research centres are unique actors in the innovation system, engaging in both R&D and technology transfer activities to an extent that depends on their size, R&D budgets and number of members and aiming at strengthening the members’ absorptive capacity.