Complementarities of innovation activities: An empirical analysis of the German manufacturing sector

Schmiedeberg, Claudia

doi:10.1016/j.respol.2008.07.008

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“…In fact, it is still unclear whether external sourcing and internal R&D are complements or substitutes. A range of studies finds that external sourcing and internal R&D are complementary in shaping innovative performance (Caloghirou et al 2004;Cassiman and Veugelers 2006;Lokshin, Belderbos, and Carree 2008;Schmiedeberg 2008;Tsai and Wang 2008;Rothaermel and Alexandre 2009), whereas a diverse set of empirical work finds a substitutive relationship between external and internal sources of innovation (Blonigen and Taylor The relationship between external sourcing and internal R&D can vary depending on country-specific contexts, industries, external sourcing modes, or firm-specific conditions (Jiang, Wu, and Zhu 2012). Additional analyses examining conditions under which external sourcing and internal R&D become complementary are recommended.…”

Section: Limitations and Future Researchmentioning

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External technology acquisition: a double-edged sword

Kang

2015

Asian Journal of Technology Innovation

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Firms are known to actively utilise external technology acquisition to update and extend their technological knowledge base. Although external technology acquisition has various advantages, it should be considered as a double-edged sword as it also has some inherent negative aspects. This study examines the role of external technology acquisition to investigate whether external technology acquisition is complementary or substitutive to internal R&D activities in creating innovation. The results show that external technology acquisition has an inverted U-shaped relationship with subsequent technology innovation performance, and that is not complementary to internal R&D activities. We thus confirm that external technology acquisition has to be seen as a double-edged sword and that managers need to be aware of the potentially negative effects of strong diversity of the firm's external technology acquisition sources on internal R&D and subsequent innovation performance.

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Section: Limitations and Future Researchmentioning

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External technology acquisition: a double-edged sword

Kang

2015

Asian Journal of Technology Innovation

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“…Certain studies analyse R&D outsourcing and cooperation jointly but do not focus on the domestic versus international dimension nor on differences among domestic and multinational firms (Veuglers and Cassiman, 2004;Schmiedeberg, 2008;Vega-Jurado et al, 2009;Dhont-Peltraut and Pfister, 2011, for example). More importantly, these studies do not analyse the simultaneous decision to engage in different types of technology sourcing with partners or providers located in different geographic locations.…”

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“…Size of the firm seems to be positively associated to external cooperation for innovation. Empirical evidence in this regard has been provided for a variety of countries such as Germany, Italy, South Korea and Spain (Carboni, 2010;Segarra-Blasco and Arauzo-Carod, 2008;Chun and Mun, 2012;Lopez, 2008;Schmiedeberg, 2008). The panorama might differ concerning R&D outsourcing.…”

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Foreign Subsidiaries and Technology Sourcing in Spain

Holl

Rama

2014

Industry and Innovation

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Abstract. Firms acquire external technological knowledge via different channels. In this paper we compare the technology sourcing via R&D outsourcing, R&D outsource offshoring, domestic cooperation for innovation and international cooperation for innovation of foreign subsidiaries and domestic firms. Because the different technology sourcing choices are potentially correlated we apply a multivariate probit specification which allows for systematic correlations among the different choices. The results show that the different technology sourcing choices are indeed interdependent and that foreign subsidiaries show a different pattern of external technology sourcing. Compared to affiliated domestic companies, foreign subsidiaries show a smaller propensity for external technology sourcing via R&D outsourcing from independent firms in the host country, for R&D outsource offshoring, and for international cooperation for innovation. In contrast, foreign subsidiaries show a greater propensity for domestic cooperation for innovation.

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“…Greater R&D collaboration intensity is found to generate positive effects on organizations' survival, growth, and innovative output (Baum and Oliver, 1991;Powell et al, 1996). For these reasons, organizations realizing R&D collaboration tend to outperform those exclusively relying on internal research efforts (Chesbrough, 2003;Schmiedeberg, 2008;Hagedoorn and Wang, 2012). However, while being primarily related to positive effects, R&D collaboration do bear potentials for loss of valuable resources to partners and negative overall effects on value creation (Hagedoorn and Schakenraad, 1994;Stuart, 2000;Cassiman and Veugelers, 2002).…”

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The structure and evolution of inter-sectoral technological complementarity in R&D in Germany from 1990 to 2011

Broekel

Brachert

2015

J Evol Econ

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Complementarities of innovation activities: An empirical analysis of the German manufacturing sector

Cited by 177 publications

References 69 publications

External technology acquisition: a double-edged sword

External technology acquisition: a double-edged sword

Foreign Subsidiaries and Technology Sourcing in Spain

The structure and evolution of inter-sectoral technological complementarity in R&D in Germany from 1990 to 2011

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