Open Innovation in SMEs: Potential and Realized Absorptive Capacity for Interorganizational Learning in Dyad Collaborations with Academia
Due to a variety of barriers to develop innovation, small and medium enterprises (SMEs) find it necessary to collaborate with external sources of knowledge. The current study analyses the collaboration between SMEs and academia over an open innovation setting in Mexico. An absorptive capacity (ACAP)...
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doaj-d59f21c5b8ba4aeab5abd397282b2bdc2020-11-25T01:25:44ZengMDPI AGJournal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market and Complexity2199-85312019-09-01537210.3390/joitmc5030072joitmc5030072Open Innovation in SMEs: Potential and Realized Absorptive Capacity for Interorganizational Learning in Dyad Collaborations with AcademiaGrover Alfredo Avalos-Quispe0Luis Manuel Hernández-Simón1Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Sección de Estudios de Posgrado e Investigación (ESIME-Z), Ciudad de México 07738, MexicoInstituto Politécnico Nacional, Sección de Estudios de Posgrado e Investigación (ESIME-Z), Ciudad de México 07738, MexicoDue to a variety of barriers to develop innovation, small and medium enterprises (SMEs) find it necessary to collaborate with external sources of knowledge. The current study analyses the collaboration between SMEs and academia over an open innovation setting in Mexico. An absorptive capacity (ACAP) approach has been applied to understanding the process of developing new knowledge for achieving innovation. A two-part questionnaire was developed with the aim of assessing the ACAP of a new joint research unit. Data was collected from a local group of SMEs that collaborated as dyads with academia supported by a government program of innovation in Mexico. The result shows that there was a moderate potential and realized ACAP in the sample; these results are mutually related with both parts of the questionnaire which supports our findings. In conclusion, exploitation of new knowledge is a complex dimension for creating value from collaboration, which makes the outcome difficult to measure using traditional means. It can be argued that exploiting new knowledge for innovation is an iterative process of learning when exploring new sources of knowledge from academia.https://www.mdpi.com/2199-8531/5/3/72open innovationabsorptive capacitycollaborationjoint research unitexploitationSMEs |
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Grover Alfredo Avalos-Quispe Luis Manuel Hernández-Simón Open Innovation in SMEs: Potential and Realized Absorptive Capacity for Interorganizational Learning in Dyad Collaborations with Academia Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market and Complexity open innovation absorptive capacity collaboration joint research unit exploitation SMEs |
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Grover Alfredo Avalos-Quispe Luis Manuel Hernández-Simón |
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Open Innovation in SMEs: Potential and Realized Absorptive Capacity for Interorganizational Learning in Dyad Collaborations with Academia |
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Open Innovation in SMEs: Potential and Realized Absorptive Capacity for Interorganizational Learning in Dyad Collaborations with Academia |
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Open Innovation in SMEs: Potential and Realized Absorptive Capacity for Interorganizational Learning in Dyad Collaborations with Academia |
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Open Innovation in SMEs: Potential and Realized Absorptive Capacity for Interorganizational Learning in Dyad Collaborations with Academia |
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Open Innovation in SMEs: Potential and Realized Absorptive Capacity for Interorganizational Learning in Dyad Collaborations with Academia |
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open innovation in smes: potential and realized absorptive capacity for interorganizational learning in dyad collaborations with academia |
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Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market and Complexity |
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2019-09-01 |
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Due to a variety of barriers to develop innovation, small and medium enterprises (SMEs) find it necessary to collaborate with external sources of knowledge. The current study analyses the collaboration between SMEs and academia over an open innovation setting in Mexico. An absorptive capacity (ACAP) approach has been applied to understanding the process of developing new knowledge for achieving innovation. A two-part questionnaire was developed with the aim of assessing the ACAP of a new joint research unit. Data was collected from a local group of SMEs that collaborated as dyads with academia supported by a government program of innovation in Mexico. The result shows that there was a moderate potential and realized ACAP in the sample; these results are mutually related with both parts of the questionnaire which supports our findings. In conclusion, exploitation of new knowledge is a complex dimension for creating value from collaboration, which makes the outcome difficult to measure using traditional means. It can be argued that exploiting new knowledge for innovation is an iterative process of learning when exploring new sources of knowledge from academia. |
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open innovation absorptive capacity collaboration joint research unit exploitation SMEs |
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