2022-11-04, Pemartín González-Adalid, María, Organización de Empresas y Finanzas

This paper analyzes the influence of regional technology policy on the evolution of R&D organizations. Specifically, combining population ecology and resource dependence perspectives, this research examines how technology policies impact environmental conditions of technological centres (TCs) affecting organizational change and surviving. To empirically test our assumptions, this research uses a comparative case study research design analyzing 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 organizations, contributing to the debate on the importance of regional innovation systems, the organizational adaptation to multi actor governance, and the blurring organizational boundaries between public and private spheres of TCs.