The journey towards open innovation: why do firms choose different routes?

被引：7
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作者：
Bzhalava, Levan [1 ,2 ,3 ]
Cantner, Uwe [2 ,3 ,4 ]
机构：
[1] Caucasus Univ, Caucasus Sch Business, Politkovskaya 10, GE-0186 Tbilisi, Georgia
[2] Grad Coll Econ Innovat Change DFG GK 1411, Dept Econ, Chair Microecon, Carl Zeiss Str, D-307743 Jena, Germany
[3] Friedrich Schiller Univ Jena, Carl Zeiss Str, D-307743 Jena, Germany
[4] Univ Southern Denmark, Dept Mkt & Management, I2M Grp, Campusvej 55, DK-5230 Odense M, Denmark
来源：
EURASIAN BUSINESS REVIEW | 2018年 / 8卷 / 03期
关键词：
Open innovation; R&D outsourcing; Innovation cooperation; Internal innovation impediments; RESEARCH-AND-DEVELOPMENT; FINANCIAL CONSTRAINTS; COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE; RESOURCE; IMPACT; UK; CAPABILITIES; OBSTACLES; COOPERATION; SEARCH;
D O I：
10.1007/s40821-017-0101-9
中图分类号：
F [经济];
学科分类号：
02 ;
摘要：
Prior research on open innovation provides no systematic insight whether firms with internal innovation constraints increase the scale of R&D outsourcing or the number of innovation cooperation partnerships. Motivated by this research gap in the literature, we study the effect of economic- and knowledge-related innovation impediments on a degree of formal openness in innovation. Analyzing a 3 years panel dataset of German manufacturing firms obtained from Mannheim Innovation Panel (MIP) database, we find that knowledge-related obstacles induce firms to increase the scale of R&D outsourcing as well as to engage in innovation cooperation partnerships. Contrariwise, a non-significant relationship is detected between economic related innovation impediments and R&D openness. Hence, the study suggests that a high degree of openness in innovation is driven by knowledge shortages rather than cost-risk minimization objectives.
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页数：21
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