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
美国佐治亚理工公共政策学院教授
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.
