The analysis of relationship between R&D outsourcing and firm innovative performance from the perspective of open innovation

Author

Bei, Wu ; Chen, Jin ; Yuan Wu, Zeng

Author_Institution

ZheJiang GongShang Univ., Hangzhou

fYear

2008

fDate

21-24 Sept. 2008

Firstpage

1004

Lastpage

1009

Abstract

R&D outsourcing has become a new trend and gains more and more concern in recent years. This paper empirically examines the relationship between R&D outsourcing intensity and firm performance. Based on the literature review of outsourcing and outsourcing intensity measurement, we put forward the determinants of R&D outsourcing intensity, which is composed of R&D outsourcing depth and R&D outsourcing breadth. Using a large-scale sample of industrial firms, this paper empirically links R&D outsourcing intensity to innovative performance, finding that the innovative R&D outsourcing intensity is curvilinearly (taking on inverted U-shape) related to performance while efficient R&D outsourcing intensity is linearly related to performance.

Keywords

industries; innovation management; organisational aspects; outsourcing; R&D; firm innovative performance; industrial firms; open innovation; outsourcing; Costs; Economic forecasting; Industrial relations; Information technology; Large-scale systems; Manufacturing industries; Outsourcing; Performance analysis; Research and development; Technological innovation; R&D outsourcing; R&D outsourcing intensity; outsourcing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Management of Innovation and Technology, 2008. ICMIT 2008. 4th IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Bangkok

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2329-3

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2330-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICMIT.2008.4654505

Filename

4654505