WHICH UNIVERSITY TO PARTNER WITH: AN INVESTIGATION INTO PARTNER SELECTION MOTIVES AMONG SMALL INNOVATIVE FIRMS

Brian Karlson () and Lisa Callagher ()
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Brian Karlson: Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning, University of Auckland Business School, New Zealand
Lisa Callagher: Management and International Business Department, University of Auckland Business School, New Zealand

International Journal of Innovation Management (ijim), 2012, vol. 16, issue 03, 1-16

Abstract: The paper explores small innovative firms' motives for selecting university partners. As well as risk-reducing, cost-reducing, and value creating motives that are established in the literature, "enabling" is proposed as a fourth motive, which asserts that firms select university partners that enable the firm to remain flexible and adaptable in commercialising early-stage innovations.

Keywords: University–industry relationships; small innovative firms; partner selection; research commercialisation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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