Do firms benefit from interactions with public research organisations beyond innovation?: an analysis of small firms

• Jaider Vega-Jurado ^[1] ; Ana García-Granero ^[2] ; Liney Manjarrés-Henríquez ^[3]
  1. [1] Universidad del Norte

     Universidad del Norte

     Colombia

     
  2. [2] Universitat de València

     Universitat de València

     Valencia, España

     
  3. [3] Universidad de la Costa

     Universidad de la Costa

     Colombia

     

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• Localización: European Research on Management and Business Economics, ISSN 2444-8834, Vol. 27, Nº. 2, 2021, págs. 22-29
• Idioma: inglés
• DOI: 10.1016/j.iedeen.2021.100148
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  • 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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