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

Hangyeol Seo, Yanghon Chung and Hyungseok Yoon

Technovation, 2017, vol. 66-67, 28-42

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Unintended innovation performance; R&D cooperation; High technology industry; Low technology industry; Appropriability regime (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1016/j.technovation.2017.03.002

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