ENHANCING THE OUTCOMES IN R&D COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS: AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF THE MIDDLE EBRO VALLEY IN SPAIN

Silvia Vicente-Oliva, Ángel Martínez-Sánchez and Luis Berges-Muro
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Silvia Vicente-Oliva: Centro Universitario de la Defensa, Academia General Militar, Ctra. Huesca s.n. 50090 Zaragoza, Spain
Ángel Martínez-Sánchez: University of Zaragoza, Departamento de Dirección y Organización de Empresas, Escuela de Ingeniería y Arquitectura, Campus Río Ebro, C/ María de Luna no 3, Edificio Betancourt, 50018 Zaragoza, Spain
Luis Berges-Muro: University of Zaragoza, Departamento de Ingeniería de los Procesos de Fabricación, Escuela de Ingeniería y Arquitectura, Campus Río Ebro, C/ María de Luna no 3, Edificio Quevedo, 50018 Zaragoza, Spain

International Journal of Innovation Management (ijim), 2016, vol. 20, issue 07, 1-34

Abstract: The collaboration for developing research and development (R&D) projects highlights the importance to access new external knowledge. Drawing from a mixed-methods approach in a sample of projects carried out by Spanish firms, our key findings show that every project’s dimension of absorptive capacity is related to collaborative performance in different ways. Organisations with capability difficulties to transform external knowledge enhanced their R&D projects’ outcomes by collaborating more intensively. However, it is the ability to exploit that external knowledge into innovation which could be the key to obtain outcomes and support to R&D programs. The regional particularities have showed new ways to collaborate due to the innovation culture in the Middle Ebro Valley.

Keywords: Collaborative R&D projects; project outcomes; absorptive capacity of knowledge; market orientation; regional innovation system; dynamic capabilities (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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