1Department of Business Administration, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan City, Taiwan
Journal of Business and Management Sciences.
2022,
Vol. 10 No. 3, 105-112
DOI: 10.12691/jbms-10-3-1
Copyright © 2022 Science and Education PublishingCite this paper: Hui-Wen Yang, Shih-Chieh Fang. A Longitudinal Study of the R&D Partnership Development between Firm and Academia.
Journal of Business and Management Sciences. 2022; 10(3):105-112. doi: 10.12691/jbms-10-3-1.
Correspondence to: Shih-Chieh Fang, Department of Business Administration, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan City, Taiwan. Email:
fangsc@mail.ncku.edu.twAbstract
R&D collaboration with academia is widely perceived as the important way to develop breakthrough innovation and sustain competitive advantage in the knowledge-intensive industry. The outcome of collaborative innovation depends on the firm’s strategy and management to overcome the challenges from different institutional logic and different disciplinary of knowledge domains. Based on literature review and a longitudinal study, we explored how firm effectively develop and maintain R&D partnership with academia. We highlighted the dynamics of collaborative sensemaking in the interdisciplinary collaboration. This study provided inspiration for practitioners to manage R&D partnership and achieve the desired outcome of industry-academia collaboration.
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