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Catch‐up through Collaborative Innovation: Evidence from China
Author(s) -
Liu Yang,
Ying Ying,
Wu Xiaojie
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
thunderbird international business review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.553
H-Index - 37
eISSN - 1520-6874
pISSN - 1096-4762
DOI - 10.1002/tie.21886
Subject(s) - china , business , absorptive capacity , sample (material) , industrial organization , emerging markets , cluster (spacecraft) , innovation management , marketing , knowledge management , economic geography , economics , political science , computer science , chemistry , finance , chromatography , law , programming language
Collaborative innovation has received the attention of management scholars for decades. The primary focus of our research is to explore the mechanisms that drive innovation catch‐up of latecomers in an emerging economy through research and development collaborations (i.e., academic and industrial collaborations). Using a sample of 1,066 firms in a high‐tech cluster in China, we find that collaborative innovation strategy has an inverse U–shaped effect on a firm's innovation performance. In addition, the relationship between collaborative innovation strategy and innovation performance is positively moderated by absorptive capacity © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc .