Abstract
This chapter explores the development of firm-specific innovative capabilities in university/industry collaborations. It builds an integrative innovative capability framework and empirically tests it in a university/industry collaborative context. It theoretically contributes by bridging the previously unexplored nexus between university/ industry collaboration (within the triple-helix of innovation) and innovative capabilities. It also advances industry-specific insights regarding why firms should collaborate with universities, specifically emphasizing a set of innovative capabilities that universities are likely to promote in their industrial collaborative relationships. This holds particular relevance to help define the value of where and how the entrepreneurial university should be applied. The chapter establishes that three of the innovative capability constructs specifically allowed the university to significantly influence the collaborating firms' innovative capabilities: (1) external environment and networking intensity; (2) path dependency, prior related knowledge, and learning; and (3) idea management and opportunity recognition.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Title of host publication | Volume 1 |
| Subtitle of host publication | Entrepreneurial Universities: Technology and Knowledge Transfer |
| Publisher | World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte Ltd |
| Pages | 185-222 |
| Number of pages | 38 |
| Volume | 1-4 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9789814733311 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9789814733304 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Feb 1 2017 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Economics, Econometrics and Finance
- General Business, Management and Accounting