Abstract
Collaborating with public research organizations (PROs) helps SMEs acquire the knowledge and skills they need to successfully innovate. But do they also help SMEs reduce their exposure to involuntary knowledge misappropriation and legitimacy deficits? Building from transaction economics and population ecology theories, we hypothesize that innovative SMEs collaborate with PROs to not only co-develop knowledge, but also to mitigate the risk that knowledge will be misappropriated from larger firms as well as to build overall organizational legitimacy. Binary and ordinal regression analyses using the EIM Technology Panel including 779 innovative SMEs in the Netherlands reveal that some of the variations in SME innovation partnership behavior may indeed be explained by efforts to avoid knowledge misappropriation and gain endorsements and affiliation with highly legitimate PROs.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Article number | 1850021 |
| Pages (from-to) | 1-27 |
| Number of pages | 27 |
| Journal | International Journal of Innovation and Technology Management |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| Early online date | 19 Mar 2018 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Jun 2018 |
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Keywords
- innovation barriers
- Knowledge misappropriation
- organizational legitimacy
- SME partnerships
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SME Knowledge Commercialization Through Public Sector Partnerships. / Thompson, Neil A.; Herrmann, Andrea M.; Hekkert, Marko P.
In: International Journal of Innovation and Technology Management, Vol. 15, No. 3, 1850021, 06.2018, p. 1-27.Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
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AB - Collaborating with public research organizations (PROs) helps SMEs acquire the knowledge and skills they need to successfully innovate. But do they also help SMEs reduce their exposure to involuntary knowledge misappropriation and legitimacy deficits? Building from transaction economics and population ecology theories, we hypothesize that innovative SMEs collaborate with PROs to not only co-develop knowledge, but also to mitigate the risk that knowledge will be misappropriated from larger firms as well as to build overall organizational legitimacy. Binary and ordinal regression analyses using the EIM Technology Panel including 779 innovative SMEs in the Netherlands reveal that some of the variations in SME innovation partnership behavior may indeed be explained by efforts to avoid knowledge misappropriation and gain endorsements and affiliation with highly legitimate PROs.
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