Organizing links with science: Cooperate or contract?. A project-level analysis

Research Policy

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 882-892

  Cassiman, Bruno ^a   Di Guardo, Maria Chiara ^b   Valentini, Giovanni ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

^c BOCCONI UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Industry science links; Organizing innovation; R D projects

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRY-SCIENCE LINKS; LEVEL CHARACTERISTIC; MULTINATIONAL COMPANIES; SEMICONDUCTOR INDUSTRY; SPECIFIC COMPONENT;

SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MANUFACTURE;

INDUSTRY;

EID: 77953705631     PISSN: 00487333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2010.04.009     Document Type: Article

References (72)

1. Abernathy W., and Clark K. Innovation: mapping the winds of creative destruction. Research Policy 14 (1985) 3-22
2. Adams, J., Chiang, E., Jensen, J., 2000. The influence of federal laboratory R&D on industrial research. NBER working paper 7612.
3. Aghion, P., Dewatripont, M., Stein, J., 2005. Academia, the Private Sector, and the Process of Innovation. Working paper.
4. Argote L., McEvily B., and Reagans R. Managing knowledge in organizations: an integrative framework and review of emerging themes. Management Science 49 (2003) 571-582
5. Arora A., and Gambardella A. Complementarity & external linkages: the strategies of the large firms in Biotechnology. Journal of Industrial Economics 38 (1990) 361-379
6. Arrow K. Economic welfare and the allocation of resources for invention. The Rate and Direction of Inventive Activity: 609-625 (1962), Princeton University Press, Princeton
7. Arrow K. The Limits of Organization (1974), Norton, New York
8. Belderbos R., Carree M., and Lokshin B. Cooperative R&D and firm performance. Research Policy 33 (2004) 1477-1492
9. Birkinshaw J., Nobel R., and Ridderstrale J. Knowledge as a contingency variable: do the characteristics of knowledge predict organization structure?. Organization Science 13 (2002) 274-289
10. Cassiman B., and Veugelers R. R&D cooperation and spillovers: some empirical evidence from Belgium. American Economic Review 92 (2002) 1169-1184
11. Chesbrough H.W. Open Innovation (2003), Harvard Business School Press, Boston
12. Cockburn I., and Henderson R. Absorptive capacity, coauthoring behavior, and the organization of research in drug discovery. Journal of Industrial Economics 46 (1998) 157-182
13. Cohen W.M., Florida R., Randazzese L., and Walsh J. Industry and the academy: uneasy partners in the cause of technological advance. In: Noll R. (Ed). Challenge to the University (1997), Brookings Institution Press, Washington, DC
14. Colombo M. Alliance form: a test of the contractual and competence perspectives. Strategic Management Journal 24 (2003) 1209-1229
15. D'Aspremont C., and Jacquemin A. Cooperative and non-cooperative R&D in duopoly with spillovers. American Economic Review 78 (1988) 1133-1137
16. Dasgupta P., and David P.A. Toward a new economics of science. Research Policy 23 (1994) 487-521
17. Delmas M.A. Exposing strategic assets to create new competencies: the case of technological acquisition in the waste management industry in Europe and North America. Industrial and Corporate Change 8 (1999) 635-652
18. Fleming L., and Sorenson O. Science as a map in technological search. Strategic Management Journal 25 (2004) 909-928
19. Fontana R., Geuna A., and Matt M. Factors affecting University-Industry R&D projects: the importance of searching, screening and signaling. Research Policy 35 (2006) 309-323
20. Gambardella A. Competitive advantages from in-house basic research. Research Policy 21 (1992) 391-407
21. George G., Zahra S.A., and Wood D.R. The effects of business-university alliances on innovative output and financial performance: a study of publicly traded biotechnology companies. Journal of Business Venturing 17 (2002) 577-609
22. Ghemawat P. Commitment. The Dynamics of Strategy (1991), The Free Press, New York
23. Gibbons R. Four formal(izable) theories of the firm?. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 58 (2005) 200-245
24. Gomes-Casseres B. The Alliance Revolution (1996), Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA
25. Grant E., and Gregory M. Tacit knowledge, the life cycle and international manufacturing transfer. Technology Analysis and Strategic Management 9 (1997) 149-161
26. Grant R.M. Toward a knowledge-based theory of the firm. Strategic Management Journal 15 Winter Special Issue (1996) 109-122
27. Gulati R., and Singh H. The architecture of cooperation: managing coordination costs and appropriation concerns in strategic alliances. Administrative Science Quarterly 43 (1998) 781-814
28. Hagedoorn J., Link A.N., and Vonortas N.S. Research Partnerships. Research Policy 29 (2000) 567-586
29. Hall, B.H., Link, A.N., Scott, J.T., 2000. University as research partner. NBER Working paper no. 7643.
30. Hall B.H., Link A.N., and Scott J.T. University as research partner. Review of Economics & Statistics 85 (2003) 485-491
31. Hamel G. Competition for competence and inter-partner learning within international strategic alliances. Strategic Management Journal 12 (1991) 83-103
32. Hauser J. Research, development, and engineering metrics. Management Science 44 (1998) 1670-1689
33. King G., Keohane R., and Verba S. Designing Social Inquiry (1994), Princeton University Press, Princeton
34. Kogut B., and Zander U. Knowledge of the firm, combinative capabilities and the replication of technology. Organization Science 3 (1992) 383-397
35. Lacetera, N., 2005. Different Missions and Commitment Power: An Institutional View of Industry-University Relations. Working paper.
36. Laursen K., and Salter A. Searching low and high: what types of firms use universities as a source of innovation?. Research Policy 33 (2004) 1201-1215
37. Leiblein M.J., Reuer J., and Dalsace F. Do make or buy decisions matter? The influence of governance on technological performance. Strategic Management Journal 23 (2002) 817-833
38. Levinthal D.A., and March J.G. The myopia of learning. Strategic Management Journal 14 Winter Special Issue (1993) 95-112
39. Liebeskind J. Knowledge, strategy and the theory of the firm. Strategic Management Journal 17 Special Issue (1996) 93-107
40. Liebeskind J.P., Lumerman Oliver A., Zucker L., and Brewer M. Social networks, learning, and flexibility: sourcing scientific knowledge in new biotechnology firms. Organization Science 7 (1996) 428-443
41. Linder J.C., Jarvenpaa S., and Davenport T.H. Toward an innovation sourcing strategy. MIT-Sloan Management Review 44 4 (2003) 43-49
42. MacCormack A., Verganti R., and Iansiti M. Developing products on "Internet Time": the anatomy of a flexible development process. Management Science 47 (2001) 133-150
43. Madhok A. Reassessing the fundamentals and beyond: Ronald Coase, the transaction cost and resource-based theories of the firm and the institutional structure of production. Strategic Management Journal 23 (2002) 535-550
44. Mohnen P., and Hoareau C. What type of enterprises forges close links with universities and government labs? Evidence from CIS2. Managerial and Decision Economics 24 (2003) 133-146
45. Nagarajan A., and Mitchell W. Evolutionary diffusion: internal and external methods used to acquire encompassing, complementary and incremental technological changes in the lithotripsy industry. Strategic Management Journal 19 (1998) 1063-1077
46. Nelson R. The simple economics of basic scientific research. Journal of Political Economy 67 (1959) 297-306
47. Nelson R.R., and Winter S. An evolutionary theory of economic change (1982), Belknap Press of the Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA
48. NSF, 2002. National Science Foundation. Science and Engineering Indicators.
49. Oxley J.E. Appropriability hazards and governance in strategic alliances: a transaction costs approach. Journal of Law, Economics and Organization 13 (1997) 387-409
50. Pisano G. The R&D boundaries of the firm: an empirical analysis. Administrative Science Quarterly 35 (1990) 153-176
51. Polanyi M. The Tacit Dimension (1967), Anchor Books, New York
52. Powell W. Neither market nor hierarchy: network forms of organizations. Research in Organizational Behavior 12 (1990) 295-336
53. Rigby D., and Zook C. Open-market innovation. Harvard Business Review (October 2002) 80-89
54. Robertson T.S., and Gatignon H. Technology development mode: a transaction cost conceptualization. Strategic Management Journal 19 (1998) 515-531
55. Rosenberg N. Why do firms do basic research (with their own money)?. Research Policy 19 (1990) 165-174
56. Sakakibara M. Cooperative research and development: who participates and in which industries do projects take place?. Research Policy 30 (2001) 993-1018
57. Sampson R. Organizational choice in R&D alliances: knowledge-based and transaction cost perspectives. Managerial and Decision Economics 25 (2004) 421-436
58. Santoro M.D., and Chakrabarti. Firm size and technology centrality in industry-university interactions. Research Policy 31 (2002) 1163-1180
59. Shaver J.M. Accounting for endogeneity when assessing strategy performance: does entry mode choice affect FDI survival?. Management Science 44 (1998) 571-585
60. Shelanski H., and Klein P.G. Empirical research in transaction cost economics: a review and assessment. The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization 11 (1995) 335-361
61. Sobrero M., and Roberts E.B. The trade-off between efficiency and learning in interorganizational relationships for product development. Management Science 47 (2001) 493-511
62. Steensma H.K., and Corley K.G. Organizational context as a moderator of theories on firm boundaries for technology sourcing. Academy of Management Journal 44 (2001) 271-291
63. Ulset S. R&D outsourcing and contractual governance: an empirical study of commercial R&D projects. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 30 (1996) 63-82
64. Veugelers R., and Cassiman B. R&D cooperation between firms and universities. Some empirical evidence from Belgian manufacturing. International Journal of Industrial Organization 23 (2005) 355-379
65. Williamson O.E. The vertical integration of production: market failure considerations. American Economic Review 61 (1971) 112-123
66. Williamson O.E. Markets and Hierarchies: Analysis and Antitrust Implications (1975), The Free Press, New York
67. Williamson O.E. Economic Institutions of Capitalism (1985), The Free Press, New York
68. Williamson O.E. Comparative economic organization: the analysis of discrete structural alternatives. Administrative Science Quarterly 36 (1991) 269-296
69. Williamson O.E. Strategizing, economizing, and economic organization. Strategic Management Journal 12 (1991) 75-94
70. Winter S. Knowledge and competence as strategic assets. In: Teece D.J. (Ed). The Competitive Challenge (1987), Ballinger, Cambridge, MA 159-184
71. Zander U., and Kogut B. Knowledge and the speed of the transfer and imitation of organizational capabilities: an empirical test. Organization Science 6 (1995) 76-92
72. Zucker L. Markets for bureaucratic authority and control: information quality in professions and service. Research in the Sociology of Organizations 8 (1991) 157-190