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T1 PhD trained employees and firms’ transitions to upstream R&D activities
A1 Barge Gil, Andrés
A1 D'Este, Pablo
A1 Herrera, Liliana
A2 Organizacion de Empresa
K1 Empresas
K1 PhD trained employees
K1 Upstream R&D
K1 Basic and applied research
K1 R&D strategy
K1 Firms' transitions
AB [EN] This paper investigates the relationship between firms’ transition towards upstream-R&D activities and the availability of R&D employees with PhD training. Doctoral trained employees have distinct motivations for research: some have stronger preferences for intellectual freedom and autonomy, while others reveal greater aspirations for targeted research and opportunities for development of new products and processes. These contrasting profiles among PhD trained employees lead to ambiguous predictionsabout whether a greater presence of employees with a doctoral training enhances the capacity of firms to initiate upstreamoriented R&D. We examine this question by studying a large sample of Spanish manufacturing firms which are active in development activities, and investigate the effect of PhD trained R&D employees on the propensity of firms to initiate upstream-oriented R&D. Our results show that a higher proportion of PhDs in R&D functions has a positive and significant influence on the firm’s initiation an upstream-oriented R&D strategy.
PB Taylor & Francis
SN 1366-2716
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10612/17445
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10612/17445
NO Barge-Gil, A., D’Este, P., y Herrera, L. (2021). PhD trained employees and firms’ transitions to upstream R&D activities. Industry and Innovation, 28(4), 424–455. https://doi.org/10.1080/13662716.2020.1817728
DS BULERIA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de León
RD 29-jun-2024