AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS ON ABSORPTIVE CAPACITY BASED ON LINKAGE WITH ACADEMIA

Hiromi Saito () and Koichi Sumikura ()
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Hiromi Saito: National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, 7-22-1 Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-8677, Japan
Koichi Sumikura: National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, 7-22-1 Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-8677, Japan

International Journal of Innovation Management (ijim), 2010, vol. 14, issue 03, 491-509

Abstract: In this paper, we empirically explain how scientific knowledge assimilated from academia affects corporate performance, particularly in the pharmaceutical industry of Japan. We use balanced panel data on 46 pharmaceutical firms in Japan for the period 1992–2005. Then, we introduce a new concept, propensity to capture basic research (PCBR), to index how much scientific knowledge firms have assimilated from universities and public research institutes. We use this index to verify whether absorption of such knowledge influences corporate performance. According to econometric analysis, PCBR is positively significant for patent applications and patent efficiency but not for number of approved drugs. This obviously implies that scientific knowledge assimilated from academia is effective for technological performance in firms. Moreover, the results suggest how R&D is structured in the organizational setup of Japanese pharmaceutical firms.

Keywords: Open innovation; absorptive capacity; university-industry linkage; pharmaceutical industry; panel data; econometric analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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