Exploring Three Conditions for Innovative Cluster Development through Co-Patenting Relationships

Exploring Three Conditions for Innovative Cluster Development through Co-Patenting Relationships

Stek, P.E.
Van Geenhuizen, M.S.

Technology, Policy and Management

Values Technology and Innovation

2014-08-19

The paper explores the innovative performance of 9 high and medium-high technology manufacturing industries across 29 countries based on patent and R&D expenditure data. The purpose of this study is to evaluate whether the benefits of particular forms of collaboration have a significant positive effect on innovative performance at the national level. The study considers three perspectives connected to innovative cluster performance: open innovation, the Triple Helix model of university-industry-government relations, and the presence of global pipelines (international ties) as being of influence on innovation performance. The three perspectives are evaluated using co-patenting analysis. The findings of the study suggest that patents and R&D expenditure are highly correlated and that the three perspectives appear to have varying significance depending on the industry being considered. In science-based industries international ties tend to have a positive effect on innovative performance, while in most engineering-based industries such ties tend to weaken innovative performance. Open innovation and the Triple Helix perspective do not show as clear a distinction, and so the differentiation across industries merits further research.

open Innovation
Triple Helix
international
co-patenting
clusters

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ASIALICS 2014: 11th Asia Association of Learning, Innovation and Coevolution Studies International Conference, Daegu, South-Korea, 25-27 September 2014; submitted paper

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