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특별 콜로키움 알려드립니다.
미국 조지아 테크의 John Walsh 교수가
방문하여 다음과 같이 특별 강의를 하기로 하였습니다.
많은 참여 부탁드립니다.
일시 : 2011년 5월 9일
월요일 오후 5시 30분
장소 : 연희관
201호
제목 :
Open Innovation and Patent Value in the US and Japan: Evidence from the
RIETI-Georgia Tech inventor survey
강사 : John P. Walsh
(School of Public Policy, Georgia Institute of
Technology)
ABSTRACT
While individual inventors are key to technological progress, it is
becoming increasingly necessary for inventors and their firms to exploit
information and capabilities outside the firm in order to combine
one’s own resources with resources from the external environment.
Building on evolutionary economics and network theories of innovation, we
develop a set of hypotheses about the effects of collaboration on innovation.
Using detailed information on a sample of triadic patents, with over 1900
responses from the US and over 3600 responses from Japan, we report on the rates
of collaboration of various forms, and test our hypotheses on the effects of
collaboration. Our results suggest that in both countries, just over 10% of
inventions involved an external co-inventor and about 25% involved external
(non-co-inventor) collaborators (with the rate of collaboration somewhat higher
in Japan). Cross-organizational co-inventions increase as firm size declines,
especially in Japan. In both countries, vertical collaborations (both
co-inventions and other collaborations) with users and suppliers were the most
common. We find evidence that heterogeneous collaborations are associated with
more technologically significant inventions, but that vertical collaboration is
associated with greater chances of commercialization. These results are
consistent with a theory of local search and firm-specific capabilities being
key drivers for innovation success. |