The relationship between the interactive behavior of industry–university–research subjects and the cooperative innovation performance: The mediating role of knowledge absorptive capacity

Frontiers in Psychology

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Xiulan Meng¹  Kui Di²  Huan Su¹  Xiaoyan Jin³  Weiwei Lv²  Xingqi Huang⁴  Chaoyang Wu⁵  Li Fan¹ 

[1] Xingzhi College of Zhejiang Normal University;Jinhua Polytech;Modern Management College of Zhejiang Industry and Trade Polytechnic;Accounting Department, Zhejiang University, Shanghai College of Finance and Economics;Zhejiang Gongshang University College of Management Engineering and E-Commerce ,(Cross Border E-Commerce College)

关键词: Industry-university-research cooperation;    cooperative trust;    Cooperative Communication;    Knowledge absorptive capacity;    cooperative innovation performance;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1077614

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

Industry–university–research cooperation innovation, which is often characterized by resource complementarity and the sharing technology, has become one of the most preferred innovation cooperation methods for enterprises. However, various problems still occur in the process of industry–university–research cooperations, such as poor innovation performance and difficulty in sustaining cooperation. Existing studies mostly focus on the macroscopic perspectives of geographic location, cooperation scale, concentration, and diversification of industry–university–research cooperation subjects, and fail to explore the microscopic behavioral mechanisms. Therefore, this paper establishes the interactive behaviour of industry–university–research subjects and defines its concepts and dimensions in an attempt to provide a. mechanism for improving the cooperative innovation performance of industry–university–research from the micro-behavioural perspective. On the basis of theoretical analysis, this paper develops a model of the relationship between cooperative trust, cooperative communication, and cooperative innovation performance for interactive behavior, while exploring the mediating role of knowledge absorptive capacity. The model was validated by stepwise regression using data from 325 questionnaires. The paper found that cooperative trust and cooperative communication in the cooperative interactive behavior of industry–university–research positively contribute to the improvement of cooperative innovation performance. Knowledge absorptive capacity plays a partially mediating role between the interactive behaviors and cooperative innovation performance. More specifically, knowledge absorptive capacity partially mediates cooperative communication in cooperative innovation performance and completely mediates cooperative trust in cooperative innovation performance. The results are largely consistent with the results of the heterogeneity analysis of the sample. This paper not only explains why the cooperative innovation performance of industry–university–research is poor from the perspective of interactive behavior, but also enriches the research perspective of industry–university–research and provides theoretical support for enterprises to optimize the relationship between industry, university, and research institutes.

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