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Title: | Long-term innovation outcomes of university-industry collaborations: the role of ‘bridging’ vs ‘blurring’ boundary spanning practices |
Authors: | Federica, R Muthu, DS Ning, B Rosli, A |
Keywords: | university-industry collaborations (UICs);boundary spanning;Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTPs);exploitative innovation;exploratory innovation |
Issue Date: | 10-Nov-2020 |
Publisher: | Wiley on behalf of British Academy of Management |
Citation: | Federica, R. et al. (2022) 'Long-term innovation outcomes of university-industry collaborations: the role of ‘bridging’ vs ‘blurring’ boundary spanning practices', British Journal of Management, 33 (1), pp. 478 - 501. doi: 10.1111/1467-8551.12449. |
Abstract: | We explore the link between the long-term innovation outcomes of university–industry collaborations (UICs) – in particular, whether the UIC has led to further exploitative or exploratory innovation – and the adoption of boundary-spanning practices. This extends the current literature on UICs, which has mainly focused on short-term innovation outputs and on the features of boundary-spanning individuals and teams. Relying on a unique, purposefully constructed evidence base combining information from 95 semi-structured interviews with participants in 75 UICs and from publicly available databases, we find that adopting a ‘bridging’ approach to boundary spanning – through formal and structured practices and communication procedures – increases the likelihood that the UIC will lead to further exploitative innovation. A ‘blurring’ approach to boundary spanning – through informal practices to de-emphasize boundaries between organizations – increases the likelihood that the UIC will lead to further exploratory innovation. The choice of each boundary-spanning approach is in turn influenced by the collaborators’ prior experience with internal knowledge creation and collaborative knowledge co-creation. Management and policy implications are discussed. |
URI: | https://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/21765 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8551.12449 |
ISSN: | 1045-3172 |
Other Identifiers: | ORICD iD: Federica Rossi https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5869-4469 ORCID iD: Muthu De Silva https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4800-3684 ORCID iD: Ning Baines https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0860-0479 ORCID iD: Ainurul Rosli https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7819-2255 |
Appears in Collections: | Brunel Business School Research Papers |
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