R&D cooperation and unintended innovation performance: Role of appropriability regimes and sectoral characteristics

TY - JOUR

T1 - R&D cooperation and unintended innovation performance

T2 - Role of appropriability regimes and sectoral characteristics

AU - Seo, Hangyeol

AU - Chung, Yanghon

AU - Yoon, Hyungseok (David)

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2017 Elsevier Ltd

PY - 2017/8

Y1 - 2017/8

N2 - This research empirically examines the relation between R&D cooperation and unintended innovation performance. The effects of appropriability and sectoral conditions on the unintended innovation performance in the context of R&D cooperation were also tested. Binary logistic regression was used to analyze the manufacturing firms sampled from the Korea Innovation Survey (KIS) 2012. Our estimation results show that for the high-tech focal firms under strong appropriability regime, cooperation with competitors increases the likelihood of their unintended innovation performance. For the high-tech focal firms under weak appropriability regime, cooperation with customer and user firms and universities increases the likelihood of their unintended innovation performance. For the low-tech firms under strong appropriability regime, cooperation with the customer and user firms and advisory organizations increases the likelihood of unintended innovation performance. For the low-tech firms under weak appropriability regime, cooperation with competitors and government research institutes increases the likelihood of unintended innovation performance. As a whole, the significance of this paper lies in shedding a new light on approaching the innovation performance with the notion of unintended innovation performance, which is shaped by different partner types and environmental conditions.

AB - This research empirically examines the relation between R&D cooperation and unintended innovation performance. The effects of appropriability and sectoral conditions on the unintended innovation performance in the context of R&D cooperation were also tested. Binary logistic regression was used to analyze the manufacturing firms sampled from the Korea Innovation Survey (KIS) 2012. Our estimation results show that for the high-tech focal firms under strong appropriability regime, cooperation with competitors increases the likelihood of their unintended innovation performance. For the high-tech focal firms under weak appropriability regime, cooperation with customer and user firms and universities increases the likelihood of their unintended innovation performance. For the low-tech firms under strong appropriability regime, cooperation with the customer and user firms and advisory organizations increases the likelihood of unintended innovation performance. For the low-tech firms under weak appropriability regime, cooperation with competitors and government research institutes increases the likelihood of unintended innovation performance. As a whole, the significance of this paper lies in shedding a new light on approaching the innovation performance with the notion of unintended innovation performance, which is shaped by different partner types and environmental conditions.

KW - Appropriability regime

KW - High technology industry

KW - Low technology industry

KW - R&D cooperation

KW - Unintended innovation performance

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85017340192&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1016/j.technovation.2017.03.002

DO - 10.1016/j.technovation.2017.03.002

M3 - Article

AN - SCOPUS:85017340192

SN - 0166-4972

VL - 66-67

SP - 28

EP - 42

JO - Technovation

JF - Technovation

ER -