Mario Kafouros
Academic collaborations and firm innovation performance in China: the role of region-specific institutions
Kafouros, Mario; Wang, Chengqi; Piperopoulos, Panagiotis; Zhang, Mingshen
Authors
CHENGQI WANG CHENGQI.WANG@NOTTINGHAM.AC.UK
Professor of Strategy & International Business
Panagiotis Piperopoulos
Mingshen Zhang
Abstract
Although prior research has highlighted the importance of academic collaborations in enhancing firms’ innovation performance, it has largely focused on developed countries. As a result, how academic collaborations influence innovation in emerging countries, which differ fundamentally from developed countries in their institutional environment, remains unclear. We contribute to this literature by examining how collaborations with universities and research institutes influence the ability of Chinese emerging market enterprises (EMEs) to develop innovations. Our analysis challenges the assumption of institutional homogeneity within a given country, showing that institutions evolve in different ways across sub-national Chinese regions. This uneven institutional evolution affects the enforcement of intellectual property rights (IPRs), the level of international openness, the quality of universities and research institutes across regions and thus the degree to which Chinese EMEs benefit from academic collaborations. Our findings reveal that sub-national institutional variations have a profound impact on the relationship between academic collaborations and firms’ innovation performance, illustrate that some established assumptions are not valid in emerging countries, such as China, and offer insights into how EMEs can enhance their innovation performance.
Citation
Kafouros, M., Wang, C., Piperopoulos, P., & Zhang, M. (2015). Academic collaborations and firm innovation performance in China: the role of region-specific institutions. Research Policy, 44(3), 803-817. doi:10.1016/j.respol.2014.11.002
Journal Article Type | Article |
---|---|
Acceptance Date | Nov 4, 2014 |
Online Publication Date | Nov 26, 2014 |
Publication Date | Apr 30, 2015 |
Deposit Date | Jul 23, 2018 |
Publicly Available Date | Feb 8, 2019 |
Print ISSN | 0048-7333 |
Publisher | Elsevier |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 44 |
Issue | 3 |
Pages | 803-817 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2014.11.002 |
Public URL | https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1100495 |
Publisher URL | https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048733314001930?via%3Dihub |
Files
Final Accepted Version
(1 Mb)
PDF
You might also like
Location choice of Chinese outward FDI – An ethnicity-based population ecology perspective
(2022)
Journal Article
Downloadable Citations
About Repository@Nottingham
Administrator e-mail: digital-library-support@nottingham.ac.uk
This application uses the following open-source libraries:
SheetJS Community Edition
Apache License Version 2.0 (http://www.apache.org/licenses/)
PDF.js
Apache License Version 2.0 (http://www.apache.org/licenses/)
Font Awesome
SIL OFL 1.1 (http://scripts.sil.org/OFL)
MIT License (http://opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.html)
CC BY 3.0 ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)
Powered by Worktribe © 2024
Advanced Search