TY - CONF A1 - Blind, K. A1 - De Vries, H. A1 - Mangelsdorf, Axel ED - Fomin, V. ED - Jakobs, K. T1 - Openness for innovation and involvement in standardization: evidence from the community innovation survey N2 - In this paper, we explore the relationship between firms' approaches to open innovation and their decision to participate in Standardization alliances. Based on micro data of Dutch Companies surveyed in the Forth Community Innovation Survey we show that the importance of extemal knowledge is positively correlated with participation in Standardization. This suggests that firms aim to access the knowledge of other Companies and stakeholders in Order to increase their own knowledge base. The analysis also shows that firms cooperating with different actors are more likely to join Standardization. Due to the positive relationships with incoming knowledge spillovers and forms of Cooperation, we conclude that Standardization represents a specific form of collaborative knowledge-sharing and knowledge-creating strategy. In addition, we are able to show that absorptive capacity measured via Companies’ research intensity is promoting the involvement in Standardization. Besides the focus on knowledge and Cooperation variables, we explore the traditionally considered factors for alliances Formation and show that firm size, export activities and patent protection are positively correlated with participation in Standardization. T2 - 16th EURAS Annual standardisation conference - Standards for development CY - Kaunas, Lithuania DA - 08.06.2011 KW - Knowledge spillovers KW - Cooperation KW - Absorptive capacity KW - Standardisation PY - 2011 SN - 3-86130-629-8 SP - 19 EP - 36 PB - Wissenschaftsverlag Mainz CY - Aachen AN - OPUS4-25500 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -