报告题目: |
清华大学科学社会学与政策学沙龙第62期:How “open” is innovation in the US and Japan? |
报告人: |
John Walsh |
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美国佐治亚理工公共政策学院教授
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报告时间: |
2010-01-29 10:00 |
报告地点: |
清华大学 新斋335 |
主办单位: |
清华大学科技与社会研究中心 |
简介: |
主讲人简介：John Walsh，西北大学社会学博士，美国佐治亚理工公共政策学院教
授；研究领域包括科技政策、日美校企联系比较、专利战略等。文章发表于Science,
Research Policy,Social Studies of Science, Management Science等顶级期刊。
ABSTRACT
While individual inventors are key to technological progress, it is
becoming increasingly necessary for inventors and their firms to
exploit information and capabilities outside the firm in order to
combine one’s own resources with resources from the external
environment. To better understand the collaborative process in
inventions, we collected detailed information on a sample of triadic
patents, focusing on the invention process, sources of ideas, and
collaboration (the RIETI-Georgia Tech inventor survey), with over 1900
responses from the US and over 3600 responses from Japan. Our results
suggest that in both countries, just over 10% of inventions involved
an external co-inventor and about 30% involved external (non-co-
inventor) collaborators (with the rate of collaboration somewhat
higher in Japan). Cross-organizational co-inventions increase as firm
size declines, especially in Japan. In both countries, vertical
collaborations (both co-inventions and other collaborations) with
users and suppliers were the most common. We find evidence that
heterogeneous collaborations are associated with more technologically
significant inventions, but that vertical collaboration is associated
with greater chances of commercialization. |
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