Towards a Taxonomy of Firms Engaged in International R&D Networks: an Evaluation of the Spanish Participation in Eureka

Innovation is increasingly becoming an internationalized process and a strategy that has recently been playing a central role in this scenario is that of R&D collaboration. To assess the outcomes of this strategy we develop an evaluation of Eureka Programme’s impact for the case of Spa...

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Autores principales: Brandão Fischer,Bruno, Molero Zayas,José
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Publicado: Universidad Alberto Hurtado. Facultad de Economía y Negocios 2012
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spelling oai:scielo:S0718-272420120003000112014-09-11Towards a Taxonomy of Firms Engaged in International R&D Networks: an Evaluation of the Spanish Participation in EurekaBrandão Fischer,BrunoMolero Zayas,José innovation policy eureka programme spanish innovation system r & d collaboration Innovation is increasingly becoming an internationalized process and a strategy that has recently been playing a central role in this scenario is that of R&D collaboration. To assess the outcomes of this strategy we develop an evaluation of Eureka Programme’s impact for the case of Spanish companies participating in this initiative and that had projects finished in the period 2000-2005. A total of 77 firms were assessed through statistical association methods and cluster analysis. Company size, Role in the Project, Firm Sector and R&D intensity are significantly associated with the projects’ impacts on Spanish participants. A consistent taxonomy is offered in which three clusters are built: (1) Risky Innovators; (2) Inventors; and (3) Consistent Innovators.info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessUniversidad Alberto Hurtado. Facultad de Economía y NegociosJournal of technology management & innovation v.7 n.3 20122012-10-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0718-27242012000300011en10.4067/S0718-27242012000300011
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topic innovation policy
eureka programme
spanish innovation system
r & d collaboration
spellingShingle innovation policy
eureka programme
spanish innovation system
r & d collaboration
Brandão Fischer,Bruno
Molero Zayas,José
Towards a Taxonomy of Firms Engaged in International R&D Networks: an Evaluation of the Spanish Participation in Eureka
description Innovation is increasingly becoming an internationalized process and a strategy that has recently been playing a central role in this scenario is that of R&D collaboration. To assess the outcomes of this strategy we develop an evaluation of Eureka Programme’s impact for the case of Spanish companies participating in this initiative and that had projects finished in the period 2000-2005. A total of 77 firms were assessed through statistical association methods and cluster analysis. Company size, Role in the Project, Firm Sector and R&D intensity are significantly associated with the projects’ impacts on Spanish participants. A consistent taxonomy is offered in which three clusters are built: (1) Risky Innovators; (2) Inventors; and (3) Consistent Innovators.
author Brandão Fischer,Bruno
Molero Zayas,José
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Molero Zayas,José
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title Towards a Taxonomy of Firms Engaged in International R&D Networks: an Evaluation of the Spanish Participation in Eureka
title_short Towards a Taxonomy of Firms Engaged in International R&D Networks: an Evaluation of the Spanish Participation in Eureka
title_full Towards a Taxonomy of Firms Engaged in International R&D Networks: an Evaluation of the Spanish Participation in Eureka
title_fullStr Towards a Taxonomy of Firms Engaged in International R&D Networks: an Evaluation of the Spanish Participation in Eureka
title_full_unstemmed Towards a Taxonomy of Firms Engaged in International R&D Networks: an Evaluation of the Spanish Participation in Eureka
title_sort towards a taxonomy of firms engaged in international r&d networks: an evaluation of the spanish participation in eureka
publisher Universidad Alberto Hurtado. Facultad de Economía y Negocios
publishDate 2012
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