Modeling the industry perspective of university-industry collaborative innovation alliances: Player behavior and stability issues

IF 4.9 Q1 BUSINESS

International Journal of Engineering Business Management Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI:10.1177/18479790221097235

Yang Song, R. Berger, Matti Rachamim, Andrew Johnston, A. F. Colladon

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Abstract

Many firms find it challenging to develop innovations, evidenced by the ever-mounting number of university-industry research alliances. This study examines the strategic choices of actors who participate in collaborative innovation alliances involving partnerships between industry and universities (U-I) based on a stochastic evolutionary game model. White noise was introduced to reflect uncertainty and the stochastic interferences caused by the differences between actors. Using the Itô stochastic differential equation theory, we analyze stability issues of player behaviors in the evolution of a collaborative innovation alliance. The results illustrate that improvements in innovation efficiency can contribute to U-I collaborative innovation alliances. High knowledge complementarity appears to be unbeneficial to the stability of these alliances, and controlling knowledge spillovers may suppress free-rider problems from both sides of the game. Our study contributes to innovation research by providing a decision-making reference for the design of U-I cooperation.

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校企合作创新联盟的产业视角建模:玩家行为和稳定性问题

许多公司发现开发创新具有挑战性，不断增加的大学-工业研究联盟证明了这一点。基于随机进化博弈模型，研究了产学研合作创新联盟(U-I)的战略选择。引入白噪声来反映不确定性和参与者之间差异引起的随机干扰。运用Itô随机微分方程理论，分析了协同创新联盟演化过程中参与者行为的稳定性问题。研究结果表明，创新效率的提高有助于U-I协同创新联盟的发展。知识的高度互补性不利于联盟的稳定，控制知识溢出可以抑制博弈双方的搭便车问题。本研究为U-I合作的设计提供决策参考，有助于创新研究。

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International Journal of Engineering Business Management BUSINESS-

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7.50

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6.10%

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15 weeks

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