R&D Collaboration Strategies for Innovation: An Empirical Study Through Social Network Analysis

Antonello Cammarano, Mauro Caputo (), Emilia Lamberti () and Francesca Michelino ()
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Antonello Cammarano: Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Salerno, Via Giovanni Paolo II, 132, 84084 Fisciano, SA, Italy
Mauro Caputo: Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Salerno, Via Giovanni Paolo II, 132, 84084 Fisciano, SA, Italy
Emilia Lamberti: Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Salerno, Via Giovanni Paolo II, 132, 84084 Fisciano, SA, Italy
Francesca Michelino: Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Salerno, Via Giovanni Paolo II, 132, 84084 Fisciano, SA, Italy

International Journal of Innovation and Technology Management (IJITM), 2017, vol. 14, issue 01, 1-24

Abstract: The paper investigates the impact of network strategies on innovation strategies carried out in 2011 by 44 top R&D spending bio-pharmaceutical companies. Gathering patent and accounting data, we built the business network of joint development activities making use of social network analysis (SNA). Our findings show that each network strategy is related to different innovation strategies, confirming that social network analysis is an effective instrument for explaining why firms enter into R&D agreements with partners and the linkage of such collaborations with the overall innovation strategy.

Keywords: Innovation strategies; R&D collaboration; social network analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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