Science-Industry Cooperation: Can the Public Sector Learn too?
Keywords:
innovation, learning, knowledge, cooperation, biopharmaceuticalAbstract
This paper discusses the generally accepted idea that public-private cooperation only creates unilateral transfers of knowledge, from public research and development institutions towards industrial companies, and posits that there are ways of collaboration in which the creation of knowledge is joint and that these are characterized by the presence of bidirectional knowledge flows. By means of a multiple case research, this aspect is investigated in three public-private partnerships in the Argentine biopharmaceutical sector, and focus is placed on the knowledge flows and the identification of possible learning processes that the public sector develops by cooperating with companies.Downloads
References
ABRAMOVSKY, L. y SIMPSON, H.D. (2011): “Geographic proximity and firm-university innovation linkages: evidence from Great Britain”, Journal of Economic Geography, vol. 11, n° 6, pp. 949-977.
ANKRAH, S.N., BURGESS, T.F., GRIMSHAW, P. y SHAW, N.E. (2013): “Asking both university and industry actors about their engagement in knowledge transfer; what single-group studies of motives omit”, Technovation, vol. 33, n° 2-3, pp. 50-65.
AROCENA, R. y SUTZ, J. (2005): “Latin American Universities: From an original revolution to an uncertain transition”, Higher Education, vol. 50, n° 4, pp. 573-592.
ARZA, V. (2010): “Channels, benefits and risks of public–private interactions for knowledge transfer: conceptual framework inspired by Latin America”, Science and Public Policy, vol. 37, n° 7, pp. 473–484.
ARZA, V., de FUENTES, C., DUTRÉNIT, G y VAZQUEZ, C. (2014): “Channels and Benefits of Interaction Between Public Research Organization and Industry: Comparing Country Cases in Africa, Asia and Latin America”, en G. Kruss, K. Lee, W. Suzigan y Alburqueque E. (eds.): Changing dominant patterns of interactions: lessons from an investigation on universities and firms in Africa, Asia and Latin America, Londres, Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 239-284.
BERCOVITZ, J. y FELDMAN, M. (2007): “Fishing upstream: Firm innovation strategy and university research alliances”, Research Policy, vol. 36, n° 7, pp. 930-948.
BRUNEEL, J., D’ESTE, P. y SALTER, A. (2010): “Investigating The Factors That Diminish The Barriers To University-Industry Collaboration”, Research Policy, vol. 39, n° 7, pp. 858-868.
BUSH, V. (1945): Science the Endless Frontier: A Report to the President on a Program for Postwar Scientific Research, Washington DC, U.S. Government Printing Office.
CEPAL-SEGIB (2010): Espacios iberoamericanos: vínculos entre universidades y empresas para el desarrollo tecnológico, Santiago de Chile, Naciones Unidas.
COHEN, W. M., NELSON, R. R. y WALSH, J.P. (2002): “Links and impacts: the influence of public research on industrial R&D”, Management Science, vol. 48, n° 1, pp. 1–23.
DASGUPTA, P. y DAVID, P. (1994): “Toward a new economics of science”, Research Policy, vol. 23, n° 5, pp. 487–521.
D'ESTE, P. y PATEL, P. (2007): “University-industry linkages in the UK: What are the factors determining the variety of interactions with industry?”, Research Policy, vol. 36, n° 9, pp. 1295-1313.
D'ESTE P. y PERKMANN M. (2011): “Why do academics engage with industry? The entrepreneurial university and individual motivations”, Journal of Technology Transfer, vol. 36, n° 3, pp. 316-339.
EDQUIST C. (1997): “Systems of innovation approaches - their emergence and characteristics”, en Edquist, C. (ed.) Systems of Innovation: Technologies, Institutions and Organizations, Londres, Pinter/Cassell, pp. 1-35.
ETZKOWITZ, H. y LEYDESDORFF, L. (2000): “The dynamics of innovation: from National Systems and ‘Mode 2’ to a Triple Helix of university-industry-government relations”, Research Policy, vol. 29, n° 2, pp. 109-123.
FREEMAN, C. (2004): “Technological infrastructure and international competitiveness”, Industrial and Corporate Change, vol. 13, n° 3, pp. 541-569.
FRITSCH, M. y SCHWIRTEN, C. (1999: “Enterprise–university cooperation and the role of public research institutions in regional innovation systems”, Industry and Innovation, vol. 6, n° 1, pp. 69–83.
GULBRANDSEN, M. y SMEBY, J.C. (2005): “Industry funding and university professors’ research performance”, Research Policy, vol. 34, n° 6, pp. 932–950.
LAURSEN, K., y SALTER, A. (2006): “Open for innovation: the role of openness in explaining innovation performance among U.K. manufacturing firms”, Strategic Management Journal, vol. 27, n° 2, pp. 131–150.
LEE, Y.S. (2000): “The sustainability of university–industry research collaboration: an empirical assessment”, Journal of Technology Transfer, vol. 25, n° 2, pp. 111–133.
LENGYEL, M. y BOTTINO, G. (2010): “La co-producción de la innovación y su diseño institucional: evidencia de la industria argentina”, Buenos Aires, FLACSO Argentina.
LÓPEZ-MARTÍNEZ, R.E., MEDELLIN, E., SCANLON, A.P. y SOLLEIRO, J.L. (1994): “Motivations and obstacles to university–industry cooperation (UIC): a Mexican case”, R&D Management, vol. 24, n° 1, pp. 17–31.
LUNDVALL, B. (1997): “National Systems and National Styles of Innovation”, 4th International ASEAT Conference - “Differences in styles of technological innovation,” Manchester.
MANSFIELD, E. (1995): “Academic research underlying industrial innovations: Sources, characteristics, and financing”, The Review of Economics and Statistics, vol. 77, n° 1, pp. 55–65.
MEYER-KRAHMER, F. y SCHMOCH, U. (1998): “Science-based technologies: university–industry interactions in four fields”, Research Policy, vol. 27, n° 8, pp. 835-851.
MILESI, D., VERRE, V. y PETELSKI, N. (2017): “Science-industry R&D cooperation effects on firm’s appropriation strategy: the case of Argentine biopharma”, European Journal of Innovation Management, vol. 20, n° 3, pp. 372-391.
NELSON, R. (1993): National Innovation Systems: A Comparative Study, Oxford, Oxford University Press.
NIEMINEN, M. y KAUKONEN, E. (2001): “Universities and R&D networking in a knowledge-based economy. A glance at Finnish developments”, Sitra Reports, serie 11, Helsinki, Sitra.
OWEN-SMITH, J. y POWELL, W. W. (2001): “Careers and contradictions: faculty responses to the transformation of knowledge and its uses in the life sciences”, en S. Vallas (ed.): Transformation of Work. Research into the Sociology of Work, vol. 10, Greenwich, JAI Press, pp. 109–140.
PERKMANN, M. y WALSH, K. (2007): “University–industry relationships and open innovation: Towards a research agenda”, International Journal of Management Reviews, vol. 9, n° 4, pp. 259-280.
PERKMANN M. y WALSH K. (2008): “Engaging the scholar: Three types of academic consulting and their impact on universities and industry”, Research Policy, vol. 37, n° 10, pp. 1884-1891.
PERKMANN, M. y WALSH, K. (2009): “The two faces of collaboration: impacts of university-industry relations on public research”, Industrial and Corporate Change, vol. 18, n° 6, pp.1033-1065.
RIVERA RIOS, M., ROBERT, V. y YOGUEL, G. (2009): “Cambio tecnológico, complejidad e instituciones: Una aproximación desde la estructura industrial e institucional de Argentina y México”, Problemas del Desarrollo, vol. 40, n° 57, pp. 75-109.
SCHARTINGER, D., RAMMER, C., FISCHER, M.M. y FROHLICH, J. (2002): “Knowledge interactions between universities and industry in Austria: sectoral patterns and determinants”, Research Policy, vol. 31, n° 3, pp. 303-328.
STAKE, R. (1995): Investigación con estudios de caso, Madrid, Ediciones Morata.
VERRE, V., MILESI, D. y PETELSKI, N. (2017): “Estrategias de apropiación en contextos de colaboración público-privada en la biotecnología argentina”, Economía: Teoría y Práctica, vol. 47, n° 2, pp. 31-64.
VESSURI, H. (ed.) (1998): La Investigación y Desarrollo en las Universidades de América Latina, Caracas, Fondo Editorial FINTEC.
YIN, R. (1984): Case Study Research. Design and Methods, Thousand Oaks, Sage Publications.
Downloads
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
All CTS's issues and academic articles are under a CC-BY license.
Since 2007, CTS has provided open and free access to all its contents, including the complete archive of its quarterly edition and the different products presented in its electronic platform. This decision is based on the belief that offering free access to published materials helps to build a greater and better exchange of knowledge.
In turn, for the quarterly edition, CTS allows institutional and thematic repositories, as well as personal web pages, to self-archive articles in their post-print or editorial version, immediately after the publication of the final version of each issue and under the condition that a link to the original source will be incorporated into the self-archive.
