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

Jaider Manuel Vega Jurado, Ana García Granero , Liney Manjarrés Henríquez

• 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.