TY - JOUR
T1 - Innovation and university collaboration
T2 - paradox and complexity within the knowledge economy
AU - Howells, Jeremy
AU - Ramlogan, Ronnie
AU - Cheng, Shu Li
N1 - Funding Information:
Address for correspondence: Jeremy Howells, Faculty of Business and Law, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK; email: [email protected] * University of Southampton, UK (JH), Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, UK (RR) and Academia Sinica, Taiwan (S-LC). The authors would like to thank three anonymous referees for their helpful comments. The research was funded by the UK Economic and Social Research Council (grant no.: RES-171-25-0038) and other partners under the Impact of Higher Education Institutions Research Initiative, with additional support from the Provincia Autonoma di Trento, as sponsor of the OPENLOC research initiative, and the Manchester Institute of Innovation Research, University of Manchester.
PY - 2012/5/1
Y1 - 2012/5/1
N2 - The paper will explore the nature and impact of universities and other higher education institutions (HEIs) on firms' innovation and growth in an increasingly distributed and open innovation system, using a survey of some 400 firms in the UK. The analysis reveals significant differences in firms' collaboration with HEIs across the UK and the value and impact that such collaborations have on a firm's development. The nature and effects of such collaboration vary significantly between the type of firm involved and their location, and the analysis investigates this in relation to various aspects of innovative activity and firms' performance. Much of the nature and effects of such collaboration are, as one would expect, counterintuitive and highlight the care we should place on assessing the role of universities and other HEIs in open innovation systems.
AB - The paper will explore the nature and impact of universities and other higher education institutions (HEIs) on firms' innovation and growth in an increasingly distributed and open innovation system, using a survey of some 400 firms in the UK. The analysis reveals significant differences in firms' collaboration with HEIs across the UK and the value and impact that such collaborations have on a firm's development. The nature and effects of such collaboration vary significantly between the type of firm involved and their location, and the analysis investigates this in relation to various aspects of innovative activity and firms' performance. Much of the nature and effects of such collaboration are, as one would expect, counterintuitive and highlight the care we should place on assessing the role of universities and other HEIs in open innovation systems.
KW - Collaboration
KW - Economic impact
KW - Higher education institutions
KW - Industry-academic links
KW - Networks
KW - Open innovation
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84861175212&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1093/cje/bes013
DO - 10.1093/cje/bes013
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84861175212
SN - 0309-166X
VL - 36
SP - 703
EP - 721
JO - Cambridge Journal of Economics
JF - Cambridge Journal of Economics
IS - 3
ER -