摘要:科学与工业之间的联系一直是研究技术变革的学者感兴趣的问题。最近的研究表明,科学和工业之间的资源交换可能导致共同进化的模式,对创新的速度和方向产生重大影响。然而,我们目前对研究机构和行业之间的协同进化动态如何受到组织特征的影响知之甚少。为了解决这一缺点,在本文中,我们对世界上两个最大的太阳能光伏发电研究机构进行了比较案例研究,并研究了它们在财务资源依赖方面的差异如何影响协同进化模式。
我们证明,当一个研究机构严重依赖行业资金时,它会导致科学和行业的密切协同进化,从而提高相互锁定特定技术的风险。另一方面,严重依赖公共资金有助于科学和工业发展的脱钩,这意味着研究对实践的影响有限。通过建立一个框架,展示资源依赖如何影响科学与产业之间的协同进化,我们的研究为科学与产业协作、协同进化和技术范式方面的文献做出了贡献。此外,我们的研究对有意推动技术变革的研究机构的决策者和管理者具有重要意义。
Abstract: The linkages between science and industry have long been of interest to scholars studying technological change. Recent studies demonstrate that resource exchange between science and industry may lead to patterns of co-evolution, with major implications for the rate and direction of innovation. However, we currently know very little about how the dynamics of co-evolution between research institutes and industry are influenced by organizational characteristics. To address this shortcoming, in this paper we draw on a comparative case study of the world's two largest research institutes for solar photovoltaic power and study how differences in their financial resource dependence influence patterns of co-evolution.
We demonstrate that when a research institute is heavily reliant on industry funding, it leads to close co-evolution of science and industry, thereby raising the risk of a mutual lock-in into specific technologies. A heavy reliance on public funding, on the other hand, contributes to the decoupling of science and industry evolution, which entails the risk of research having limited impact on practice. By developing a framework that shows how co-evolution between science and industry is affected by resource dependence, our study contributes to the literature on science-industry collaboration, co-evolution, and technological paradigms. Moreover, our study bears important implications for policy makers and managers of research institutes interested in spurring technological change.
来源期刊:Research Policy,2021年
参考文献格式:Joern Hoppmann,Hand in hand to Nowhereland? How the resource dependence of research institutes influences their co-evolution with industry,Research Policy,Volume 50, Issue 2,2021,104145,ISSN 0048-7333,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2020.104145.
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