A resource-based analysis of strategic alliances between knowledge intermediaries in regional innovation support systems

IF 1.9 Q2 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH

Industry and Higher Education Pub Date : 2023-02-15 DOI:10.1177/09504222231155764

Philipp Bäumle, K. Bizer

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Notwithstanding a recent upsurge in interest in knowledge intermediaries and their roles in innovation support systems, we know little about the interplay between the activities of academia-driven intermediaries and their publicly financed counterparts. Building on a combination of principles derived from the resource-based theory and entrepreneurial ecosystems literature, this paper investigates the potentials of cooperation between different knowledge intermediaries. Therefore, the authors analyze the alignment of financial, knowledge, market and network resources in politically funded regional alliances between university-internal and university-external intermediaries by means of a qualitative approach. They find that, while knowledge intermediaries can benefit from access to additional ecosystem-specific resources, the urge to improve their own position within the ecosystem hampers the will to cooperate and can lead to non-performing resource alignments. The paper contributes to current scholarly discussions by suggesting and testing a theoretical foundation for analyzing the cooperative behavior of knowledge intermediaries in innovation support systems.

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区域创新支持系统中知识中介战略联盟的资源基础分析

尽管最近人们对知识中介及其在创新支持系统中的作用的兴趣激增，但我们对学术驱动的中介机构的活动与公共资助的中介机构之间的相互作用知之甚少。本文结合资源基础理论和创业生态系统文献的原理，研究了不同知识中介之间的合作潜力。因此，本文采用定性分析的方法，分析了高校内部中介和高校外部中介在政治资助的区域联盟中对财政、知识、市场和网络资源的整合。他们发现，虽然知识中介可以从获得额外的生态系统特定资源中受益，但提高自己在生态系统中的地位的冲动阻碍了合作的意愿，并可能导致不良的资源配置。本文提出并验证了创新支持系统中知识中介合作行为分析的理论基础，为当前的学术讨论做出了贡献。

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Industry and Higher Education EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH-

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期刊介绍： Industry and Higher Education focuses on the multifaceted and complex relationships between higher education institutions and business and industry. It looks in detail at the processes and enactments of academia-business cooperation as well as examining the significance of that cooperation in wider contexts, such as regional development, entrepreneurship and innovation ecosystems. While emphasizing the practical aspects of academia-business cooperation, IHE also locates practice in theoretical and research contexts, questioning received opinion and developing our understanding of what constitutes truly effective cooperation. Selected key topics Knowledge transfer - processes, mechanisms, successes and failures Research commercialization - from conception to product ''Graduate employability'' - definition, needs and methods Education for entrepreneurship - techniques, measurement and impact The role of the university in economic and social development The third mission and the entrepreneurial university Skills needs and the role of higher education Business-education partnerships for social and economic progress University-industry training and consultancy programmes Innovation networks and their role in furthering university-industry engagement