logologologo
  • Home
  • About
    • Contributors
    • Guide for contributors
  • Themes
    • Roadmapping
    • Open Innovation
    • Managing the R&D pipeline
    • Technology Strategy
    • Managing international R&D
    • Ideation and creativity in R&D
    • Impact of digital technologies
    • The resurgence of frugal innovation
    • Design Thinking
    • Penetrating the fog of Agile
    • China’s Belt and Road Initiative, a new model for Open Innovation
  • Tools
  • News
    • R&D Today newsletter archive
  • Resources
  • Papers
  • Case Studies
  • Events
  • R&D Conference
  • Contact
  • Home
  • About
    • Contributors
    • Guide for contributors
  • Themes
    • Roadmapping
    • Open Innovation
    • Managing the R&D pipeline
    • Technology Strategy
    • Managing international R&D
    • Ideation and creativity in R&D
    • Impact of digital technologies
    • The resurgence of frugal innovation
    • Design Thinking
    • Penetrating the fog of Agile
    • China’s Belt and Road Initiative, a new model for Open Innovation
  • Tools
  • News
    • R&D Today newsletter archive
  • Resources
  • Papers
  • Case Studies
  • Events
  • R&D Conference
  • Contact

RADMA: Celebrating 40 years – unpicking the motivations for R&D collaboration

The motivations for R&D collaboration fall into a number themes including: securing strategic resources; gaining best value with limited resources; cost minimisation and policy decisions. Kyung Ju Han of the University of Sussex has been studying these motivations and was grateful for the generous funding provided by RADMA in 2017 which supported his Postgraduate Student fieldwork research in South Korea.Kyung Ju Han

He explains that his research aims to understand the underlying mechanisms of inter-organisational R&D collaboration across main actors in the innovation system such as firms, hospitals, public research institutes (PRIs), and universities in the digital healthcare sector.

Particularly, I pay attention to the strategic motives of focal organisations in the establishment of the collaboration as well as to understanding how different inter-organisational collaborative structures depending on the strategic motives have an impact on R&D performance such as SCI papers, patenting, and commercialisation activities.

Moreover, I deal with the strategic motives in establishing collaboration with three different theoretical perspectives. They include intrinsic properties of individual organisations such as cost minimisation and securing strategic resources for value maximisation perspectives, and institutional properties of the innovation system like R&D policy.

I am doing a monograph for my thesis and any other outputs were not yet produced.

What was the most interesting thing that you learnt while working in research?

My survey revealed that for the focal organisations I was studying, the most influential motivation in the establishment of R&D is the resource-based view (i.e. securing strategic resources for value maximisation).

This finding is cross-validated with interview data. Furthermore, for-profit organisations, firms, are significantly more affected by the strategic motives to minimise research and administrative costs and to have priority over IPRs in establishing R&D collaboration than universities and PRIs.

Interestingly, I found institutional properties of the innovation system significantly more influential for small-sized firms in developing R&D collaboration than medium-sized firms. Moreover, I also found that hospitals seek to  collaborate with firms to shorten lead time for the realisation of their ideas from a clinical site, while they collaborated with universities to gain benefits from access to grants.

If someone wanted to learn more about this subject what would you recommend they read?

  • Lee, and Bozeman. (2005). The impact of research collaboration on scientific productivity. Social studies of science, 35(5), 673-702.
  • Golichenko. (2016). The National Innovation System: From Concept to Research Methodology. Problems of Economic Transition, 58(5), 463-481.
  • Barney. (1991). Firm resources and sustained competitive advantage. Journal of Management, 17(1), 99-120.
  • Williamson. (1985). The Economic Institutions of Capitalism: firms, markets, relational contracting. New York.
  • Belderbos,Carree, and Lokshin. (2004b). Cooperative R&D and firm performance. Research policy, 33(10), 1477-1492.
  • Hacklin, and Wallin. (2013). Convergence and interdisciplinarity in innovation management: a review, critique, and future directions. The Service Industries Journal, 33(7-8), 774-788.
  • Yin. (1994). Case Study Research: Design and Methods (Vol. 5): SAGE Publications.
  • Miller, and French. (2016). Organizing the entrepreneurial hospital: Hybridizing the logics of healthcare and innovation. Research policy, 45(8), 1534-1544.
  • Thune, and Mina. (2016). Hospitals as innovators in the health-care system: A literature review and research agenda. Research policy, 45(8), 1545-1557.

What are you doing now and does this build on your knowledge of R&D Management?

I am now coping with empirical analysis based on the data collected from my fieldwork; my supervisors are Ben Martin and Puay Tang.

The purpose of the analysis is to arrive at a better understanding of underlying mechanisms in inter-organisational R&D collaboration such as how different collaborative structures contingent on strategic motives are developed, and how the collaborative structures affect R&D performance.

In this study, I focus, not only on the strategic motives based on institutional of the innovation system and intrinsic properties of individual organisations, but also on relationships between collaborative structures and their performance to arrive at a better understanding of underlying collaboration mechanisms.

Thus, I am expecting this research is able to contribute at least something both to my knowledge and to the R&D Management discipline.

What do you think RADMA offers the research community?

Even though I have known the RADMA only for around two years now,  RADMA plays a crucial role in knowledge production, sharing, and disseminations of R&D management through supporting funding for the early stage of researchers in this field, running the outstanding journal, and conferences. I really appreciate your efforts.

collaborationmotivations for R&D collaborationRADMA
Previous PostRADMA: Celebrating 40 years -Re-engineering b...
Next Post40 years of funding for R&D management resear...
Search R&D Today
Search
Generic filters
Exact matches only
Search in title
Search in content
Search in excerpt
Filter by Article Type
Papers
Events
Tools
Funding Articles
Case Studies
Resources
Opportunities
Theme Editor Blogs
Filter by Categories
Business model innovation
Ideation and creativity in R&D
Latest news
Managing international R&D
Managing technology platforms
Managing the R&D pipeline
Open innovation
Outsourcing R&D
Project valuation and selection
R&D strategy
Roadmapping
Stage gate processes
Technology intelligence
View our newsletter archive
Resources
  • Portfolio Management techniques
  • Creating Breakthrough Ideas: The Collaboration of Anthropologists and Designers in the Product Development Industry
Related Posts
  • Funding for R&D management students
  • RADMA: technology affordance
  • Trust and control in innovation ecosystems
Tools
  • Paul Barrett
    Tools support objective discussion of portfolio strategy
    Paul Barrett is part of a RADMA working group providing a selection of recommended...
  • Frugal Innovation Index
    Frugal innovation - competitive advantage when resources are limited
    Frugal innovation allows a company with a quality product to compete effectively with cheaper...
  • Radar-Roadmap-feat
    The Halo-Effect: Creating Impact Through “Good-looking“ Roadmaps
    Content is the essence of roadmapping. But the impact of impressive, professional visuals that...
  • Innovation Fitness Test - a tool to help scoring
    John Bessant recommends this tool developed by colleagues in Canada which helps with using...
  • Would an analogy help?
    nalogies are a useful tool for creative problem solving, to help one move away...
Have Your Say…

Have Your Say / Follow Us

R&D Today is the outreach site for the Research and Development Management Association, a charitable organisation that supports research, best practice and innovation.  www.radma.net

Click here to sign up to our newsletter, and click here to view our newsletter archive.

Copyright R&D Today 2020. All rights reserved.