Complementarities Between Universities and Technology Institutes: New Empirical Lessons and Perspectives
This paper investigates the different roles played by universities and technology institutes (TIs) as innovation partners of firms. Comparing the characteristics of Spanish firms collaborating with these agents allows us to better define complementarities among the target groups of these organizations. Our findings show that those firms collaborating with universities are bigger, have higher internal capabilities and are less dependent on their external relationships while firms collaborating with TIs are smaller, have weaker internal capabilities but are more open to their environment and thus more reliant on external sources. We point to the implications of these findings for regional development. Universities have a role as partners of more technologically advanced firms. TIs, on the other hand, partner those firms, which though also quite advanced, require more external help in their innovation processes. These results should help policy-makers in the definition of more complex regional strategies and the provision of tools aimed at different goals. Managers of universities, TIs and client firms should find these results of help in developing more positive collaborations with one another.
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2010
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Authors: | Barge-Gil, Andrés ; Santamaría, Luis ; Modrego, Aurelia |
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European Planning Studies. - Taylor & Francis Journals, ISSN 0965-4313. - Vol. 19.2010, 2, p. 195-215
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Taylor & Francis Journals |
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