The issue of through what processes R&D collaboration with universities affects a firms’ innovation performance remains … under-researched. In particular, university relationships have not been fully integrated in the open innovation framework …. This study explores the relationship between firms’ collaboration with universities and their capabilities for innovation …

between university collaboration and the average service firm’s innovation output. Second, in the pursuit of credible … innovative in the literature of innovation studies. In analysis of the interviews, we find very weak support for the first idea …. Innovation efficiency gains in the form of reduced cost and risk for innovation projects, which is a third idea suggested by the …

This paper rigorously explores the impact of firm’s collaboration with universities on innovation. Specifically, using … average service firm’s innovation sales or propensity to apply for patents. …

accented role are most likely to facilitate valuable impulses to further R&D and innovation. …

firm’s innovation processes depend on the organisational and cognitive distances between the firm and the PRO. In … obtain differential benefits. Their interaction with universities provides impulses for innovation and offers opportunities …

linkages in geographical proximity are more likely to generate impulses to innovation and create significant learning effects …

innovation, in terms of invented or improved products or processes, are found to be the main drivers for interaction. As regards … the nature of the innovation process leading to innovation, most respondents indicate that “indirect” relationships … between collaboration outcomes and successful innovation dominate over “direct” appropriation of results. Contrasting open …

The systems of innovation approach has helped advocating a view on innovation as dependent on the interaction over time … general framework rather than evolved into an analytical tool for the study of the dynamics of innovation activities. In this … discussion paper, we introduce the concept of innovation system services, defined as the set of factors that have a significant …