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<p>The main aim of the article is to examine how cooperation with research institutions influences technological maturity of enterprises. It is accompanied with the additional aim, which is to assess the role of innovation policy interventions in this process, as captured by the concept of behavioral additionality, which is one of the externalities of public support for R&amp;D. The focus of this article is put on one of the specific types of behavioral additionality—cooperation additionality—which takes place in the situation where public support influences the collaboration behavior of a firm receiving R&amp;D support. The study was conducted with the use of firm-level data collected in a survey on the sample of 464 enterprises operating within national smart specializations in Poland. The results of the research suggest that public funding fosters the cooperation between scientific institutions and enterprises, thus confirms the cooperation additionality.</p>
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The main aim of the article is to examine how cooperation with research institutions influences technological maturity of enterprises. It is accompanied with the additional aim, which is to assess the role of innovation policy interventions in this process, as captured by the concept of behavioral additionality, which is one of the externalities of public support for R&D. The focus of this article is put on one of the specific types of behavioral additionality—cooperation additionality—which takes place in the situation where public support influences the collaboration behavior of a firm receiving R&D support. The study was conducted with the use of firm-level data collected in a survey on the sample of 464 enterprises operating within national smart specializations in Poland. The results of the research suggest that public funding fosters the cooperation between scientific institutions and enterprises, thus confirms the cooperation additionality.

Behavioral additionality: the role of cooperation with research institutions in fostering technological maturity of enterprises

International Journal of Management and Economics

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The main aim of the article is to examine how cooperation with research institutions influences technological maturity of enterprises. It is accompanied with...

Behavioral additionality: the role of cooperation with research institutions in fostering technological maturity of enterprises

Article Category: Empirical Paper

Publicado en línea: 30 jun 2022

Páginas: 179 - 191

Recibido: 22 dic 2021

Aceptado: 21 abr 2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ijme-2022-0009

Palabras clave
behavioral additionality, cooperation, cooperation additionality, innovation, research institutions, technological maturity

© 2022 Arkadiusz Michał Kowalski et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Behavioral additionality: the role of cooperation with research institutions in fostering technological maturity of enterprises

Article Category: Empirical Paper

Publicado en línea: 30 jun 2022

Páginas: 179 - 191

Recibido: 22 dic 2021

Aceptado: 21 abr 2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ijme-2022-0009

Palabras clavebehavioral additionality, cooperation, cooperation additionality, innovation, research institutions, technological maturity

© 2022 Arkadiusz Michał Kowalski et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Palabras clave
behavioral additionality, cooperation, cooperation additionality, innovation, research institutions, technological maturity