Dofirms benefit from interactions with public research organisationsbeyond innovation?an analysis of smallfirms

  1. Jaider Vega-Jurado 1
  2. Ana García-Granero 2
  3. Liney Manjarrés-Henríquez 3
  1. 1 , Universidad del Norte, Barranquilla, Colombia
  2. 2 Universitat de València
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    Universitat de València

    Valencia, España

    ROR https://ror.org/043nxc105

  3. 3 Universidad de la Costa, Barranquilla, Colombia
Revista:
European Research on Management and Business Economics

ISSN: 2444-8834

Año de publicación: 2021

Volumen: 27

Número: 2

Páginas: 22-29

Tipo: Artículo

DOI: 10.1016/J.IEDEEN.2021.100148 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR

Otras publicaciones en: European Research on Management and Business Economics

Resumen

In this paper we argue that there is an extensive number of studies examining howfirms obtain new prod-ucts from their interactions with scientific agents, but other type of benefits has been overlooked. Specifi-cally, we add to previous literature by considering not only product innovation, but also exploratory (long-term) and exploitative (short-term) results. We administer a tailored survey tofirms collaborating with theSpanish National Research Council (CSIC) and data was completed with secondary sources. Results based ona sample of 756firms suggest thatfirms consider all types of result as moderately important to them. More-over, we observe that smallfirms report higher benefits in terms of product innovation and long-term resultsin contrast to largefirms.

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