Providing contract research services and firms’ own product innovation performance
| Autor: | Vivien Procher, Diemo Urbig, Philip J. Steinberg, Thijs Peeters, Wolfgang Sofka |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Innovation Technology Entrepr. & Marketing |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
| Předmět: |
ComputingMilieux_THECOMPUTINGPROFESSION
Product innovation ComputingMilieux_LEGALASPECTSOFCOMPUTING General Medicine SDG 9 – Industrie innovatie en infrastructuur Extant taxon Basic research and Infrastructure Product (category theory) Business SDG 9 - Industry Innovation and Infrastructure Innovation SDG 9 - Industry Industrial organization |
| Zdroj: | 79th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management University of Groningen Academy of Management Annual Meeting 2019 |
| Popis: | Extant literature has largely assumed that firms providing research services to other firms as an inventor-for-hire will do so at the expense of developing their own product innovations. Given this assumption, it is surprising that many firms provide research services to other firms without compromising their own flow of product innovations. In this study, we provide a systematic logic that connects the inventor-for-hire services that firms provide to others with the firms’ own product innovation performance. We hypothesize that opportunistic gains from providing contract research eventually enable firms to increase their product innovation performance. Furthermore, we suggest that this increase will be stronger for technology leaders and will be weaker for firms with a strong engagement in basic research. We test our hypotheses on a panel of 1,006 firms over 2005 to 2013 and find support for our hypotheses. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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