Do firms benefit from interactions with public research organisations beyond innovation? An analysis of small firms

Do firms benefit from interactions with public research organisations beyond innovation? An analysis of small firms

Pro-industry interaction
Benefits
SMEs
Innovation

In this paper we argue that there is an extensive number of studies examining how firms obtain new products from their interactions with scientific agents, but other type of benefits has been overlooked. Specifically, we add to previous literature by considering not only product innovation, but also exploratory (longterm) and exploitative (short-term) results. We administer a tailored survey to firms collaborating with the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and data was completed with secondary sources. Results based on a sample of 756 firms suggest that firms consider all types of result as moderately important to them. Moreover, we observe that small firms report higher benefits in terms of product innovation and long-term results in contrast to large firms.

Jaider Vega-Jurado, Ana García-Granero, Liney Manjarres-Henríquez

https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/european-research-on-management-and-business-economics/vol/27/issue/2

Elsevier Espana, S.L.U

8 May 2021

Sri Wahyuni

ISSN: 2444-8834

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Jurnal Internasional European Research on Management and Business Economics 2021