Does external knowledge sourcing matter for innovation? Evidence from the Spanish manufacturing industry

Vega-Jurado, Jaider; Gutiérrez-Gracia, A.; Fernández-de-Lucio, I.

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“…Thus, we need to explore whether the factors that typically lead manufacturing firms to achieve product and/or process innovations (i.e., 'manu facturing related' factors) will also exert an impact on the generation of service innovations. Despite the relatively recent availability of this data source, it has already been used by many other researchers (Molero and García, 2008;Un and Montoro Sá nchez, 2010;Vega Jurado, et al, 2009;among others). Moreover, given that the TIP is a CIS type database, it has been used both by policy observers to provide innovation indicators and trend analyses, and by economists to analyse a variety of innovation related topics.…”

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Service innovation in manufacturing firms: Evidence from Spain

2012

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a b s t r a c tThe ways in which manufacturing firms come to offer services to customers servitisation or servicisation are attracting considerable attention. This paper examines an innovation survey of Spanish firms in order to investigate one aspect of this phenomenon: the introduction of new or improved services by manufacturers. Specifically, the paper analyses the determinants of service innovations in manufacturers and determines whether they differ from those of product or process innovations in these same firms. The study finds that almost 20 percent of the firms in the sample have introduced such services in the recent past and that important differences exist between service and product (goods) innovations, with service innovations being particularly related to human resource development and closer links to customers. This suggests that service innovation by manufacturers has much in common with the innovation patterns detected in service sector firms. Intriguing differences across manufacturing sectors are also noted, with the lowest and highest tech sectors reporting more service innovations than the medium tech sectors.

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Service innovation in manufacturing firms: Evidence from Spain

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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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Foreign Subsidiaries and Technology Sourcing in Spain

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Rama

2014

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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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“…Esta relación se ha confirmado empíricamen-te para el caso de las vías interna y cooperación en Schmiedeberg (2008) Por otra parte, frente a la noción de capacidad de absorción y su efecto esperado sobre el rendimiento innovador, la literatura (Veugelers y Cassiman, 1999;Laursen y Salter, 2006;Vega-Jurado et al, 2009) también ha puesto de manifiesto la existencia del síndrome NIH (Non Invented Here) (Katz y Allen, 1982). De acuerdo con el mismo, la utilización de vías externas para el desarrollo de innovaciones cuando la empresa realiza un gran esfuerzo en I+D interna puede acarrear cierta resistencia por parte del personal de la propia empresa, al entender que ya posee el monopolio del conocimiento en su campo, lo cual favorecería un efecto negativo de la utilización conjunta de las vías interna y externa sobre el desempeño innovador.…”

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“…Por otro, la presencia de elevados niveles de complejidad, especificidad e incertidumbre, como son los asociados a las actividades de I+D, así como la posibilidad de comportamientos oportunistas en las transacciones reducirían los potenciales beneficios de la vía externa, haciendo más eficiente la vía de la jerarquía interna que la del mercado (Williamson, 1985). Estos argumentos apoyarían la hipótesis de un efecto negativo de la combinación de las vías interna y externa sobre el desempeño innovador (Vega-Jurado et al, 2009). En cuanto se refiere a la cooperación, y desde la perspectiva de la TCT, permite compartir costes y riesgos, a la vez que resulta menos vulnerable a los costes de transacción que la vía externa (Veugelers y Cassiman, 1999).…”

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Innovative activity sources and its relation with theinnovative performance

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Fernández²,

Piqueres³

2013

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The paper studies the effect of innovative activities sources on innovation performance. For the empirical study we use data from the Encuesta sobre Innovación Tecnológica de las Empresas for the year 2007. The results suggest that the use of only one innovation activity source (internal or external) has a negative effect on innovation performance and that the best innovative performance is obtained when different innovation activities sources are combined. Finally, internal&external, only external and internal&external&cooperation are the innovative activities sources less dependent on the innovative performance measure.

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Does external knowledge sourcing matter for innovation? Evidence from the Spanish manufacturing industry

Cited by 304 publications

References 39 publications

Service innovation in manufacturing firms: Evidence from Spain

Service innovation in manufacturing firms: Evidence from Spain

Foreign Subsidiaries and Technology Sourcing in Spain

Innovative activity sources and its relation with theinnovative performance

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