Browsing by Author "Su, Hsin-Ning"

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Does geographic distance to partners affect firm R&D spending? The moderating roles of individuals, firms, and countries
(2020-01-01)
Su, Hsin-Ning
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Moaniba, Igam M.
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科技管理研究所
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Institute of Management of Technology
This paper examines the extent to which modern technology has impacted firms' R&D spending levels by empirically examining the relationship between inventor distance and R&D intensity at firm level. We find that inventor distance has a positive link with R&D intensity. Furthermore, we argue that the success of a collaboration network lies in the distinctive roles of the individuals, organizations, or countries involved. To test this theory, we extend the study to explore the moderating effects of the number of individuals, organizations, and countries participated in a collaborated invention. Using a combined data set of R&D financial and patent data from 531 highly innovative and R&D intensive firms, and several estimation techniques such as Probit predictive margins and the generalized method of moments (GMM), our findings show that distance-R&D intensity relationship can be influenced by the number of individual inventors, number of organizations, or countries involved in the collaborations.
Geographic distance between co-inventors and firm performance: The moderating roles of interfirm and cross-country collaborations
(2020-08-01)
Moaniba, Igam M.
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Su, Hsin-Ning
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Lee, Pei-Chun
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科技管理研究所
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Institute of Management of Technology
Firms use strategic collaborations to reduce costs and increase productivity through shared technological capabilities, knowledge and resources. However, technological collaboration over geographic distance involves the risks of facing communication problems including vulnerability to the language difference, cultural issues, and political barriers. Consequently, firms engaging in technical collaborations across different locations often face higher communication (and other distance-related) costs, which in turn could affect their financial performance. This paper investigates the relationship between inventor distance and firm performance by employing panel fixed effect quantile regression techniques with interaction variables on a sample of 556 firms. The study finds empirical evidence that the geographic distance between collaborating inventors has a positive effect on firm performance. This effect is stronger in companies that engage in inventor collaborations across international borders and weaker in multi-national corporations that rely only on intra-firm inventor collaborations.
How do patent-based measures inform product commercialization?,-The case of the United States pharmaceutical industry
(2018-10-01)
Su, Hsin-Ning
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Lin, Yi-Siang
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科技管理研究所
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Institute of Management of Technology
Patents have frequently been used to analyze innovation and technological trajectory in the economic literature. The present study explored how 13 frequently used patent indicators inform product approval probability and product commercialization speed. A total of 2943 drugs approved by the FDA and the corresponding 4660 patents were analyzed to understand how patent based indicators inform 1) which factors influence the likelihood of product approval and 2) which factors influence product commercialization speed. The results show that inventor count, nonpatent reference count, foreign reference count, originality index, claim count, and litigation probability index increase product commercialization probability and speed.
On the drivers of innovation: Does the co-evolution of technological diversification and international collaboration matter?
(2019-11-01)
Moaniba, Igam M.
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Su, Hsin-Ning
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Lee, Pei-Chun
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科技管理研究所
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Institute of Management of Technology
This paper examines the co-evolution of technological diversification and international collaboration, and how they affect the intensity of innovation in a country. A two-step analysis is applied on a global panel dataset consisting of patents and macroeconomic data for 54 countries, covering a period of 40 years. First, the co-evolution patterns and characteristics of diversification and collaboration are explored. Then, a series of econometric techniques are employed in an attempt to explain the observed patterns. This step involves conducting the Toda-Yamamoto and Dolado-Lutkepohl (TYDL) Granger causality test to analyze the directions of the causal effects of technological diversification and international collaboration on innovation. Such version of the Granger causality test is valid and consistent regardless of whether a series is stationary at level, first order or second order difference; and non-cointegrated or cointegrated of any arbitrary order. In addition, reduced form vector autoregression (VAR) models are estimated to determine the scale of the impacts of both diversification and collaboration on a country's innovation performance. Our empirical results show that there is a bidirectional causality between technological diversification and innovation. This result is robust across different time periods and groups of countries. Furthermore, international collaboration is found to positively influence the intensity of innovation in a country while technological diversification has a negative effect.
The innovative fulcrums of technological interdisciplinarity: An analysis of technology fields in patents
(2019-06-01)
Huang, Hung-Chun
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Su, Hsin-Ning
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科技管理研究所
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Institute of Management of Technology
Technological interdisciplinarity and integrative development have been issues of academic discourse for some time; several studies have contributed to the investigation of techno-society and technology development. Nevertheless, the interdisciplinary technology present in a patent system remains insufficiently explored. This study examines the patents in the USPTO database from 2001 to 2014 that identifies unique structural configurations of various technology fields. The study result finds the brokerage of technological positions perform an innovative fulcrum for interdisciplinary innovation, strategizing several important innovative capabilities. Furthermore, the technological embeddedness incubates innovative capacity; technological push and pull promotes the process of endogenous, exogenous, and heterogeneous innovation and technological evolution. Therefore, this study addresses implications to both theory and practice in sustaining innovative capabilities.