The effect of triple helix cooperation on business innovation: The case of Spain

Alejandro Hernández-Trasobares and Josefina L. Murillo-Luna

Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2020, vol. 161, issue C

Abstract: The aim of this study is to describe and analyse the possible synergic effect of the cooperation of Triple Helix agents, university, industry and government, on business innovation. We use data available in the PITEC database (Technological Innovation Panel), taking a sample comprising 11,769 Spanish firms from different sectors for the 2007–2016 period. The binomial logistic model used reveals that the cooperation of firms with any Triple Helix agent increases the likelihood of innovation regardless of the type (product innovation, process innovation or a combination thereof). It also concludes that the greater the number of Triple Helix model agents who cooperate, the greater the chances of business innovation, confirming the synergic effect between different agents.

Keywords: Triple helix; Collaboration; Business innovation; Synergy; Panel Data; Spain (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2020.120296

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