Dofirms benefit from interactions with public research organisationsbeyond innovation?: an analysis of smallfirms

Jaider Vega-Jurado ^[1] ; Ana García-Granero ^[2] ; Liney Manjarrés-Henríquez ^[3]
1. [1] Universidad del Norte
  
  Universidad del Norte
  
  Colombia
2. [2] Universitat de València
  
  Universitat de València
  
  Valencia, España
3. [3] Universidad de la Costa
  
  Universidad de la Costa
  
  Colombia
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Localización: European Research on Management and Business Economics, ISSN 2444-8834, Vol. 27, Nº. 2, 2021, págs. 22-29
Idioma: inglés
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- In this paper we argue that there is an extensive number of studies examining howfirms obtain new prod-ucts from their interactions with scientific agents, but other type of benefits has been overlooked. Specifi-cally, we add to previous literature by considering not only product innovation, but also exploratory (long-term) and exploitative (short-term) results. We administer a tailored survey tofirms collaborating with theSpanish National Research Council (CSIC) and data was completed with secondary sources. Results based ona sample of 756firms suggest thatfirms consider all types of result as moderately important to them. More-over, we observe that smallfirms report higher benefits in terms of product innovation and long-term resultsin contrast to largefirms.