Motives and determinants supporting inter-firm technological cooperation have been extensively investigated in developed countries but scarcely addressed in developing countries. This paper addresses these issues, investigating empirically several factors influencing the likelihood to cooperate...

Existe una abundante literatura que analiza la interacción universidad entorno socio-económico desde diferentes enfoques. Bozeman (2000) utiliza un modelo para análisis de los factores que influyen en los enfoques de la interacción distinguiendo cinco dimensiones: las características de los...

This work applies the systemic approach to analyze the innovation process in an industrial district through the notion of the District Innovation System. We are particularly interested in the analysis of the interactions between the productive-technological and the scientific environments...

This paper analyses the effect of interaction with universities on firms? innovation output, measured as the degree of novelty of product innovation. The analysis is based on a sample of 3,257 manufacturing firms, active in innovation, and located in Spain. We distinguish between two types of...

Most studies of patents citations focus on national or international contexts, especially contexts of high absorptive capacity, and employ examiner citations. We argue that results can vary if we take the region as the context of analysis, especially if it is a region with low absorptive...

La cada vez mayor importancia que está adquiriendo el conocimiento en las sociedades contemporáneas hace necesario profundizar en el análisis de la relación existente entre ciencia e innovación. Este artículo la aborda considerando como ha evolucionado nuestra concepción sobre los...

This paper presents empirical evidence on the effect of external knowledge sourcing strategies on the development of both product and process innovations, and assesses the degree to which such effects are influenced by the firm's internal technological capacities. In our analysis, we consider...

This article presents a new model for analyzing determinants of absorptive capacity in companies and shows how can be operacionalized. We propose that absorptive capacity is not only determined by R&D activities but also by a set of internal factors, which we group into three basic categories:...

Este artículo tiene como objetivo analizar el papel que ejerce la cooperación con agentes científicos (universidades, OPIs) sobre la innovación industrial, usando una muestra amplia de empresas manufactureras localizadas en un país tecnológicamente seguidor (España). Para ello se...

Un tema que ha cobrado importancia en los últimos años ha sido el papel de las universidades en el desarrollo socioeconómico de su entorno. Desde diversas esferas se ha estimulado a las universidades para que adopten una "Tercera Misión", relacionada con la generación, aplicación y...