Exploration or exploitation of knowledge from universities. Does it make a difference?

Autor/inn/en	Arvanitis, Spyridon; Wörter, Martin
Titel	Exploration or exploitation of knowledge from universities. Does it make a difference?
Quelle	Zürich: KOF (2012), 32 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	KOF working papers / KOF Swiss Economic Institute, ETH Zurich. 322
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie; Graue Literatur
Schlagwörter	Wissenstransfer; Technologietransfer; Forschungskooperation; Hochschulforschung; Arbeitspapier; Innovation; Schweiz
Abstract	In a first step, we developed based on existing theoretical and empirical literature a series of hypotheses with respect to the relative importance of possible determinants of exploration and exploitation of knowledge in collaboration with universities and tested them on Swiss firm data. In a second step, we investigated the impact on innovation performance of knowledge exploration versus knowledge exploitation. We obtained a clear pattern of the differences between "exploration"-oriented and "exploitation"-oriented firms. We found that exploration-oriented firms have a greater knowledge absorptive capacity, are technologically more diverse, and they are less exposed to intensive price competition compared to exploitation-oriented firms. We further found a positive effect on innovation performance for exploration-oriented firms but not for those that were exploration-oriented.
Erfasst von	ZBW - Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft, Kiel
Update	2013/2