How do collaborations with universities affect firms’ innovative performance? The role of “Pasteur scientists” in the advanced materials field     

Yasunori Baba  Naohiro Shichijo  Silvia Rita Sedita 《Research Policy》2009,38(5):756-764

This article aimed to identify the effect of university-industry (U-I) collaborations on the innovative performance of firms operating in the advanced materials field, and by doing so, it proposed an original classification of the research organization partners. The main contribution resides in the estimation of the role played by collaborations with differently experienced scientists. In contrast with previous studies, whose empirical setting was the life science industry, in the advanced materials industry the most effective collaborations are not with “Star scientists”, but with “Pasteur scientists”. The latter concept was empirically tested first by the authors of this article, to deepen the present understanding of industrial heterogeneity in innovation processes and to offer new insights for the formulation of corporate innovation strategies. The results of the estimation of a negative binomial regression model applied to a sample of 455 firms active in the photocatalysis in Japan confirm the idea that engaging in research collaborations, measured as co-invention, with “Pasteur scientists” increases firms’ R&D productivity, measured as number of registered patents. In contrast, we found that firms’ collaborations with “Star scientists” exert little impact on their innovative output.  相似文献   

大学对所处区域社会的贡献——以日本创价大学为例     

山本英夫 《福建师范大学学报(哲学社会科学版)》2008,(1):37-40

如何对所处区域社会作出贡献,获得区域居民的认同和区域社会的肯定,作为当今大学的必须面对的挑战之一,一直为日本创价大学办学者所重视.本文回顾总结了创价大学创始以来的两点重要经验.  相似文献