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Collaboration in R&D with universities and research centres: an empirical study of Spanish firms
Author(s) -
Bayona Sáez Cristina,
Garc´ıa Marco Teresa,
Huerta Arribas Emilio
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
randd management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.253
H-Index - 102
eISSN - 1467-9310
pISSN - 0033-6807
DOI - 10.1111/1467-9310.00264
Subject(s) - competitor analysis , business , sample (material) , empirical research , phenomenon , marketing , public relations , political science , philosophy , chemistry , physics , epistemology , chromatography , quantum mechanics
Innovation is sometimes the result of collaboration between different agents with complementary resources. When companies make formal agreements to collaborate in R&D they do so with different types of organizations, such as their competitors, suppliers, and customers, or universities and research centres. This paper focuses on attempting to understand the reasons that lead companies to cooperate with universities and research centres and the characteristics of the relationship that this involves. The empirical study is based on a sample of 747 Spanish firms that took part in some type of collaborative R&D project between 1994 and 1996. Results indicate that cooperation with centres is a nation–wide phenomenon involving basic research, conducted under the sponsorship of different research support schemes promoted by central and regional administrations.