报告题目：Academic involvement in industry technology development

报告人：Bart van Looy  教授

邀请人：刘凤朝  教授

报告时间：2019年6月20日（周四） 上午10：00-11:30

报告地点：大连理工大学经管学院B108

报告摘要：The importance of (new) knowledge for economic growth has long been established in theories of technological progress and innovation (Schumpeter, 1934; Solow, 1957). Firms consistently invest in the development of new innovative products and processes. The increasing complexity and expenditures of conducting inherently uncertain, research and development (R&D) activities induce firms to complement their internal R&D activities with external knowledge, stemming from a variety of partners, including universities and research centers (von Hippel, 1988; Chesbrough, 2003). This study focuses on interactions between science and industry. According to available theory and empirical evidence, firms engage in collaborations with academia in order to access complementary scientific capabilities. Collaborating with knowledge institutes can be instrumental in broadening the scope of activities, in reducing risk and in internalizing new (scientific) knowledge. While there is an extensive body of literature on industry-science interactions, few empirical studies are geared towards modelling and assessing performance effects of involving academics on the level of inventions.

In this paper we examine whether academic inventors contribute to the creation of new technology developments by firms, through the lens of corporate patents. We rely on the notion of absorptive capacity (Cohen & Levinthal, 1990) to advance a number of hypotheses whereby processes of knowledge recognition (identification), assimilation and exploitation are conceived as situated at the level of the learning dyad (Lane & Lubatkin, 1998; Lane, Koka, & Pathak, 2006).

Our findings strongly suggest that how expertise residing with academics relates to project and firm characteristics affects subsequent technological activity in a significant manner. Likewise, firms benefit more by involving company inventors in the development process. Variables reflecting a more reified conception of absorptive capacity do not add meaningfully to the explanatory power of our models. As such, our study contributes to the literature on absorptive capacity by clarifying how underlying processes can be conceived as ‘situated’ and by doing so, gain in terms of explanatory power

人物介绍：Bart van Looy，比利时鲁汶大学管理经济、战略与创新系(Managerial Economics, Strategy and Innovation, MSI)教授，佛兰德斯商学院(Flanders Business School)学术院长，比利时研发检测中心(ECOOM)技术计量与专利分析研究团队带头人。Bart van Looy教授主要从事创新管理、区域创新体系、企业研发过程、创业型大学等相关研究，已发表国际权威期刊50余篇，包括Research Policy, Journal of Product Innovation Management, Organization Studies, Technovation和R&D Management等，Google Scholar总被引次数超过7500次（H-index = 36）。