Publication: Complementarities between universities and technology institutes : new empirical lessons and perspectives
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2011-01-13
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Taylor & Francis
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This paper investigates the different roles played by universities and technology
institutes (TIs) as innovation partners of firms. Comparing the characteristics of Spanish firms
collaborating with these agents allows us to better define complementarities among the target
groups of these organizations. Our findings show that those firms collaborating with universities
are bigger, have higher internal capabilities and are less dependent on their external
relationships while firms collaborating with TIs are smaller, have weaker internal capabilities but
are more open to their environment and thus more reliant on external sources. We point to the
implications of these findings for regional development. Universities have a role as partners of
more technologically advanced firms. TIs, on the other hand, partner those firms, which though
also quite advanced, require more external help in their innovation processes. These results
should help policy-makers in the definition of more complex regional strategies and the provision
of tools aimed at different goals. Managers of universities, TIs and client firms should find these
results of help in developing more positive collaborations with one another
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Universities, Technology insitutes, Spanish firms, Collaboration
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European Planning Studies, 2011, v. 19, n. 2, pp. 195-215