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Your innovation or mine? The effects of partner diversity on product and process innovation
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Área de conocimiento
Título de la revista
Journal of Product Innovation Management
Número de la revista
1
Cita Bibliográfica
Belitski, M., Delgado-Márquez, B. L., y Pedauga, L. E. (2024). Your innovation or mine? The effects of partner diversity on product and process innovation. Journal of Product Innovation Management, 41(1), 112–137. https://doi.org/10.1111/JPIM.12696.
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Wiley
Fecha
2024
ISSN
0737-6782
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[EN] Despite a fundamental revolution in digital technology, along with an ancillary
reduction in the cost of transmitting knowledge, the innovation literature on
knowledge collaboration continues to hold on to the spatial localization of
knowledge collaboration as a truism. Drawing on the open innovation literature
and knowledge-based view of firm innovation, this study explores key
boundary conditions affecting the relationship between research and development
(R&D) collaboration breadth, and product and process innovation. Using
a large-scale survey consisting of 25,813 observations of 14,784 firms in the
United Kingdom during 2004–2020, we demonstrate that the breadth of
knowledge collaboration with regional, national, and international partners
directly affects product and process innovation. However, this relationship
depends on the geographical location of the collaboration partner, the type of
partner, and the firm's absorptive capacity. We found diminishing marginal
returns to knowledge collaboration breadth for regional partners in product
innovation, and an inverted U-shaped relationship in R&D collaboration
breadth with regional partners for process innovation and for national and
international partners for product and process innovation. While investment
in digital technologies only shifts the curve upwards, it is unlikely to change
the direction of the relationship between R&D collaboration and a type of
innovation outcome. On the contrary, an increase in the share of science, technology,
engineering, and math graduates enables firms to leverage the negative
effect of R&D collaboration breadth nationally and specifically for process
innovation. Investment in digital technology and human capital increases
absorptive capacity and reduces the transaction costs associated with oversearch
and limited managerial capabilities and resources.
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