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| Title: | | Successful Patterns of Scientific Knowledge Sourcing: Mix and Match  |
| Authors: | | Aschhoff, Birgit Sofka, Wolfgang |
| Issue Date: | | 2008 |
| Series/Report no.: | | ZEW Discussion Papers 08-033 [rev.] |
| Abstract: | | Valuable knowledge emerges increasingly outside of firm boundaries, in particular in public research institutions and universities. The question is how firms organize their interactions with universities effectively to acquire knowledge and apply it successfully. Literature has so far largely ignored that firms may combine different types of interactions with universities for optimizing these knowledge sourcing strategies. We argue conceptually that firms need diverse (broad) and highly developed (deep) combinations of various interactions with universities to maximize returns from these linkages. Our empirical investigation rests upon a survey of more than 800 firms in Germany. We find that both the diversity and intensity of interactions with universities propel innovation success. However, broadening the spectrum of interactions is more beneficial with regard to innovation success. In an exploratory step we go beyond breadth and depth of interactions by identifying four distinct patterns of interaction. Our findings show that formal forms of interaction (joint/contract) research provide the best balance between joint knowledge development and value capture. |
| Subjects: | | Technology transfer industry-science links open innovation university knowledge |
| JEL: | | C30 D83 O32 |
| older Version: | | http://hdl.handle.net/10419/24728 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | Publikationen von Forscherinnen und Forschern des ZEW ZEW Discussion Papers
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