This paper rigorously explores the impact of firm’s collaboration with universities on innovation. Specifically, using … average service firm’s innovation sales or propensity to apply for patents. …

The issue of through what processes R&D collaboration with universities affects a firms’ innovation performance remains … under-researched. In particular, university relationships have not been fully integrated in the open innovation framework …. This study explores the relationship between firms’ collaboration with universities and their capabilities for innovation …

between university collaboration and the average service firm’s innovation output. Second, in the pursuit of credible … innovative in the literature of innovation studies. In analysis of the interviews, we find very weak support for the first idea …. Innovation efficiency gains in the form of reduced cost and risk for innovation projects, which is a third idea suggested by the …

firm’s innovation processes depend on the organisational and cognitive distances between the firm and the PRO. In … obtain differential benefits. Their interaction with universities provides impulses for innovation and offers opportunities …

The systems of innovation approach has helped advocating a view on innovation as dependent on the interaction over time … general framework rather than evolved into an analytical tool for the study of the dynamics of innovation activities. In this … discussion paper, we introduce the concept of innovation system services, defined as the set of factors that have a significant …