Network building, motivation and learning in inter-organisational R&D collaboration projects - Theoretical considerations

Discussing previous research on R&D collaboration networks, new modes of knowledge production and inter-organisational learning, this paper presents the theoretical considerations guiding the component eNetwork building, motivation and learning in inter-organisational R&D collaboration projectsi of the NEMO-project. The paper concludes with outlining the working hypotheses, which highlight the basic assumptions underlying further empirical research.

[1]  Daniel A. Levinthal,et al.  ABSORPTIVE CAPACITY: A NEW PERSPECTIVE ON LEARNING AND INNOVATION , 1990 .

[2]  M. Barber,et al.  The Network of EU-Funded Collaborative R&D Projects , 2005, physics/0509119.

[3]  E. Romanelli,et al.  The New Institutionalism in Organizational Analysis , 1992 .

[4]  L. Bengtsson,et al.  The Interorganizational Learning Dilemma: Collective Knowledge Development in Strategic Alliances , 1998 .

[5]  Robin Williams,et al.  Interdisciplinary integration in Europe: the case of the Fifth Framework programme , 2004 .

[6]  B. van der Meulen.  Europeanization of Research and the Role of Universities: An Organizational-Cultural Perspective , 2002 .

[7]  Michael J. Barber,et al.  The structure of R&D collaboration networks in the European Framework Programmes , 2006 .

[8]  W. Powell,et al.  Interorganizational Collaboration and the Locus of Innovation: Networks of Learning in Biotechnology. , 1996 .

[9]  C. Booth,et al.  Networks and inter‐organizational learning: a critical review , 2000 .

[10]  Thomas Roediger-Schluga,et al.  Network of European Union-funded collaborative research and development projects. , 2006, Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics.

[11]  Filippo Dal Fiore,et al.  Communities Versus Networks , 2007 .

[12]  Luke Georghiou,et al.  Socio-economic Effects of Collaborative R&D—European Experiences , 1999 .

[13]  Mikael Holmqvist.  A Dynamic Model of Intra-and Interorganizational Learning , 2003 .

[14]  John Law,et al.  Notes on the theory of the actor-network: Ordering, strategy, and heterogeneity , 1992 .

[15]  M. Polanyi.  Chapter 7 – The Tacit Dimension , 1997 .

[16]  Massimo Marraffa,et al.  Organizational learning II: Theory, method and practice , 1998 .

[17]  Eliezer Geisler,et al.  Industry–university technology cooperation: a theory of inter-organizational relationships , 1995 .

[18]  P. Bourdieu.  Forms of Capital , 2002 .

[19]  A. Elzinga.  The New Production of Knowledge. The Dynamics of Science and Research in Contemporary Societies , 1997 .

[20]  L. Leydesdorff,et al.  Emergence of a Triple Helix of University-Industry-Government Relations , 1996 .

[21]  Bernhard Dachs,et al.  Does technology affect network structure? - A quantitative analysis of collaborative research projects in two specific EU programmes , 2006 .

[22]  D. Jansen.  Governance of research networks , 2004 .

[23]  I. Nonaka.  A Dynamic Theory of Organizational Knowledge Creation , 1994 .

[24]  Donald F. Westerheijden,et al.  Playing with 'Reputation' and 'Prestige' or the 3TU Game. A Pilot Study into Network Development , 2007 .

[25]  Ronald J. Pohoryles.  The Making of the European Research Area--a View from Research Networks , 2002 .

[26]  B. Clark.  Creating entrepreneurial universities : organizational pathways of transformation , 1998 .

[27]  J. Coleman,et al.  Social Capital in the Creation of Human Capital , 1988, American Journal of Sociology.

[28]  P. Furlong.  Making democracy work: civic traditions in modern Italy , 1994 .

[29]  Peter J. Lane,et al.  Relative absorptive capacity and interorganizational learning , 1998 .

[30]  Richard Burger.  European Research Area , 2007 .

[31]  Michel Zitt,et al.  Searching for research integration across Europe: a closer look at international and inter-regional collaboration in France , 2004 .

[32]  Y. Gingras,et al.  The place of universities in the system of knowledge production , 2000 .

[33]  S. Kyvik,et al.  The Exchange of Knowledge , 1997 .

[34]  P. Ring,et al.  Developmental Processes of Cooperative Interorganizational Relationships , 1994 .

[35]  Becoming International, becoming European: EU Research Collaboration at Finnish Universities , 2002 .

[36]  P. Pierson.  Increasing Returns, Path Dependence, and the Study of Politics , 2000, American Political Science Review.

[37]  Tony Becher,et al.  Academic Tribes and Territories: Intellectual Enquiry and the Cultures of Disciplines , 2001 .

[38]  L. Leydesdorff,et al.  The dynamics of innovation: from National Systems and , 2000 .

[39]  Henricus Johannes Jacobus Gerardus Beerkens,et al.  Global opportunities and institutional embeddedness: Higher education consortia in Europe and Southeast Asia , 2004 .

[40]  Donald A. Schön,et al.  Organizational Learning II: Theory, Method, and Practice , 1995 .

[41]  I. Greener,et al.  Theorising path‐dependency: how does history come to matter in organisations? , 2002 .

[42]  Terttu Luukkonen.  Technology and market orientation in company participation in the EU framework programme , 2002 .

[43]  J. Richardson.  Handbook of Theory and Research for the Sociology of Education , 1986 .

[44]  Yannis Caloghirou,et al.  University-Industry Cooperation in the Context of the European Framework Programmes , 2001 .