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J Technol Transf (2017) 42:267284
DOI 10.1007/s10961-016-9500-9
Francesco Campanella1 Maria Rosaria Della Peruta1
Stefano Bresciani2 Luca Dezi3
Published online: 2 September 2016 Springer Science+Business Media New York 2016
Abstract The emerging relationships connecting organizations are the condition on which innovation is founded nowadays, so it is pivotal to achieve a vaster comprehension of the phenomenon through the exploitation of new dynamics and the exploration of new trajectories. In line with the Quadruple Helix (QE) approach, it seems reasonable to expect that the different environments in which rms operate would highlight the expectations of the various market governance systems, which rms must comply with in order to gain social legitimacy and improve their capacity for survival. To determine whether the Quadruple Helix model has an effect on the rms protability, the authors employed the classication analysis method (Classication And Regression Trees). The sample is composed by 4215 manufacturing rms located in science parks. In our empirical model, the variable citizen classies businesses with high Return On Investment in the best way. This shows that in science parks the fourth helix (citizen) has an important role in classifying the rms with the highest performance. Moreover, the majority of rms that attribute high importance to the collaboration with private nancial institutions in order to nance innovations have a high ROI. In addition, rms with high economic performance in the model of the quadruple helix generate product innovation.
& Maria Rosaria Della Peruta [email protected]
Francesco Campanella [email protected]
Stefano Bresciani [email protected]
Luca Dezi [email protected]
1 Second University of Naples, Corso Gran Priorato di Malta, 1, 81043 Capua, CE, Italy
2 University of Turin, Corso Unione Sovietica, 218 Bis, 10134 Turin, Italy
3 University of Naples Parthenope, Via Amm. F. Acton, 38, 80133 Naples, Italy
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Keywords Quadruple Helix Firms performance Innovation Classication and
regression trees Science parks
1 Introduction
At the basis of this work is the assumption that rms actively try to extract maximum benet from exploiting the status quo so that they can sustain their position in their own special niche. Our contention is that they are unaware, or uninterested, in the aspects that would...