TY - JOUR
T1 - Technical roles and success of US federal laboratory-industry partnerships
AU - Bozeman, B.
AU - Wittmer, D.
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors gratefully acknowledge the support of the National Science Foundation, Research on Science and Technology Program, Contract No 9220125. The opinions expressed here are the authors’ and do not necessarily reflect those of the NSF. The authors are grateful to Maria Papadakis and Karen Coker, their co-investigators. Albert Link, David Roessner, Phil-lip Shapira, and Michael Crow provided helpful comments.
PY - 2001
Y1 - 2001
N2 - Drawing from questionnaire-based data of 229 US federal laboratory-industry joint R&D projects, this research examines the composition of the technical interaction by character of the R&D performed to determine the impacts on effectiveness of the technical roles played by research partners. In addition to the particular technical roles, their number and diversity are examined, giving particular attention to the subset of projects in which the company played no technical role. Our findings show that increased technical range on the part of industry is associated with increased product development and net economic benefit. Relatively few companies are technically passive with respect to their partnerships with federal laboratories. Nevertheless, a passive role can have positive results in terms of product development and improvement.
AB - Drawing from questionnaire-based data of 229 US federal laboratory-industry joint R&D projects, this research examines the composition of the technical interaction by character of the R&D performed to determine the impacts on effectiveness of the technical roles played by research partners. In addition to the particular technical roles, their number and diversity are examined, giving particular attention to the subset of projects in which the company played no technical role. Our findings show that increased technical range on the part of industry is associated with increased product development and net economic benefit. Relatively few companies are technically passive with respect to their partnerships with federal laboratories. Nevertheless, a passive role can have positive results in terms of product development and improvement.
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U2 - 10.3152/147154301781781499
DO - 10.3152/147154301781781499
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0034847224
SN - 0302-3427
VL - 28
SP - 169
EP - 178
JO - Science and Public Policy
JF - Science and Public Policy
IS - 3
ER -