INNOVATION PERFORMANCE OF THE FIRMS THAT HAVE COOPERATED WITH UNIVERSITIES AND RESEARCH INSTITUTES IN SPAIN

Giovanna Lara, Josep Llach and Anna Arbussa
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Giovanna Lara: Carrer Universitat de Girona, 10, Campus de Montilivi, 17071 Girona, Spain2Department of Economics and Business, University of the Armed Forces, Quito, Ecuador
Josep Llach: Department of Business Administration and Product Design, University of Girona, Spain
Anna Arbussa: Department of Business Administration and Product Design, University of Girona, Spain

International Journal of Innovation Management (ijim), 2020, vol. 24, issue 06, 1-25

Abstract: This study compares the innovation performance of the firms that have succeeded in developing product innovations in cooperation with universities with the performance of those that have done so in cooperation with research institutes. The performance of these two groups is further compared with the group of firms that have cooperated with other types of partners. The results show no differences between the innovation performance of the first two groups of firms, while the firms in these two groups outperformed those that have cooperated with other partners in introducing products that were new to the market. These results are maintained for both SMEs and large firms, although large firms are more likely to have cooperated with universities and research institutes. These results validate considering universities and research institutes as a joint category in empirical studies, and they distinguish cooperation with both types of institutions from cooperation with other partners.

Keywords: Cooperation; firms-universities-research institutes; inter-organisational relations; innovation performance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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