TY - JOUR
T1 - Market-, Firm-, and Project-Level Effects on the Innovation Impact of Collaborative R&D Projects
AU - Kostopoulos, Konstantinos C.
AU - Spanos, Yiannis
AU - Soderquist, Klas Eric
AU - Prastacos, Gregory
AU - Vonortas, Nicholas S.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015, Springer Science+Business Media New York.
PY - 2019/12/1
Y1 - 2019/12/1
N2 - This study determines the factors that exert important influences on the success of collaborative research and development (R&D) projects. The study uses data from a cross-European sample of collaborative R&D projects under EU Framework Programs, supported with relevant qualitative evidence from a series of case studies, and focuses on three levels of possible factors: market, firm, and project levels. The results indicate that partnering firm innovation experience, innovation protection mechanisms, effective management of rules and regulations, and the existence of commercially driven projects that open up new technological areas are the factors with the strongest significant effect on product and/or process innovation. The findings contribute to understanding of how and under what conditions innovation can be developed in collaborative R&D projects.
AB - This study determines the factors that exert important influences on the success of collaborative research and development (R&D) projects. The study uses data from a cross-European sample of collaborative R&D projects under EU Framework Programs, supported with relevant qualitative evidence from a series of case studies, and focuses on three levels of possible factors: market, firm, and project levels. The results indicate that partnering firm innovation experience, innovation protection mechanisms, effective management of rules and regulations, and the existence of commercially driven projects that open up new technological areas are the factors with the strongest significant effect on product and/or process innovation. The findings contribute to understanding of how and under what conditions innovation can be developed in collaborative R&D projects.
KW - Cooperation
KW - Innovation
KW - R&D
KW - Research
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U2 - 10.1007/s13132-015-0342-8
DO - 10.1007/s13132-015-0342-8
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85077327771
SN - 1868-7865
VL - 10
SP - 1384
EP - 1403
JO - Journal of the Knowledge Economy
JF - Journal of the Knowledge Economy
IS - 4
ER -