Technology policy, environmental conditions, and R&D organisations' shaping: a combined population ecology and resource dependence perspective Online publication date: Fri, 18-Nov-2022
by Pilar Rico-Castro; Gregorio Sánchez-Marín; María Pemartín
International Journal of Intellectual Property Management (IJIPM), Vol. 12, No. 4, 2022
Abstract: This paper analyses the influence of regional technology policy on the evolution of R&D organisations. Specifically, combining population ecology and resource dependence perspectives, this research examines how technology policies impact environmental conditions of technological centres (TCs) affecting organisational change and surviving. To empirically test our assumptions, this research uses a comparative case study research design analysing changes promoted by the Basque regional technology policy in the environment where the TCs' inhabit, between 1980 and 2000. Our findings shed light to the understanding of policy making in R&D organisations, contributing to the debate on the importance of regional innovation systems, the organisational adaptation to multi actor governance, and the blurring organisational boundaries between public and private spheres of TCs.
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