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Open Innovation in Portugal

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  • Aurora Castro Teixeira

    (Rua Dr Roberto Frias, Faculdade de Economia do Porto, 4200-464 Porto, Portugal)

  • Mariana Lopes

    (Rua Dr Roberto Frias, Faculdade de Economia do Porto, 4200-464 Porto, Portugal)

Abstract

The empirical studies in the area of Open Innovation (OI) reveal that there is a significant bias in favour of countries on the technological frontier. The present study aims to bridge this gap by examining firms in Portugal, a country at an intermediate stage of technological development. Based on 70 innovative firms, we found that whatever perspective of the OI model is considered, firms tend, on average, to share a relatively closed innovation model when compared with firms located in countries where technological development is advanced. About a quarter of the surveyed firms implemented the OI model in their innovation strategy/business, this being much more widely disseminated regarding the absorption of external knowledge/technology, with almost 40% of firms surveyed acknowledging its use in comparison with the perspective of transfer of knowledge/technology to other organisations — less than 10% provide their “surplus technology” to other organisations. This result may indicate a lack of awareness of the economic potential of making internally created technologies available to third parties, albeit this potential might also depend on other circumstances such as technology architecture (the system and interdependence of technologies).

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  • Aurora Castro Teixeira & Mariana Lopes, 2012. "Open Innovation in Portugal," Acta Oeconomica, Akadémiai Kiadó, Hungary, vol. 62(4), pages 435-458, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:aka:aoecon:v:62:y:2012:i:4:p:435-458
    Note: The authors sincerely acknowledge the valuable insights and comments of two anonymous referees. They are also deeply grateful to all the CEOs of the companies surveyed for their time and generous collaboration. The usual disclaimers apply
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    Cited by:

    1. Santos, Antonio Bob, 2015. "Open Innovation in clusters: The Portuguese case," MPRA Paper 70032, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    2. Vania Pacheco & Nuno Araujo & Luis Rocha, 2020. "Open Innovation: from OI to OI2," EconWorld Working Papers 20001, WERI-World Economic Research Institute, revised May 2020.

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    Keywords

    open innovation; empirical study; intermediate technology development; Portugal;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • O32 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Management of Technological Innovation and R&D
    • O33 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
    • O52 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economywide Country Studies - - - Europe

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