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Benefits of co‐operation on innovative performance: evidence from integrated circuits and biotechnology firms in the UK and Taiwan
Author(s) -
Chang YuanChieh
Publication year - 2003
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 - 10.1111/1467-9310.00308
Subject(s) - general partnership , business , government (linguistics) , alliance , process (computing) , industrial organization , strategic partnership , marketing , business administration , finance , linguistics , philosophy , political science , computer science , law , operating system
The increase of strategic alliance and national or pan‐national government collaborative programmes has highlighted the shifting management and policy focus from inducing in‐house R&D to promoting a joint partnership between firms and knowledge‐generating organisations in the increasingly complex and costly innovation process. Both the ‘dynamic capability’ school and the ‘innovation network’ theorists demonstrate that inter‐organisational co‐operation has become a crucial mechanism for ‘collective innovation’. However, little attempt has been undertaken to examine the relationship between inter‐organisational co‐operation and innovative performance at the firm level. The innovative activities and inter‐organisational co‐operation of integrated circuits and biotechnology sectors across Taiwan and the UK are investigated via a postal questionnaire survey. Multiple logistic regression models are deployed. The result reveals that the types of inter‐organisational co‐operation enhancing a firm's innovative performance vary across sectors and countries. Despite the variation, this paper argues that a firm's networking ability to co‐operate with buyer firms, supplier firms and external organisations is becoming imperative for enhancing innovation in the increasingly distributed innovation process.