Innovation Configurations in Knowledge-Intensive Business Services

Abstract

K nowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) industries demonstrate some of the highest levels of innovation in most developed economies. However, these industries are very heterogeneous. Research on their innovative activities is needed in order to provide evidence to inform policy instruments to support such companies. In this paper, we analyze the innovation configurations of 477 Russian KIBS companies. First, we use factor analysis to study the key features of their innovative

Sustainable marketing strategy under globalization: a comparison between p-KIBS and t-KIBS sectors

“…This sector is characterized by private sector of small enterprises with high level of knowledge and orientation of its services to other companies and organizations that are predominantly non-routine [5]. Further, two types of KIBS are usually defined [3] the more traditional professional services (p-KIBS) such as accountancy, legal, management consultancy services and the more technology-based KIBS (t-KIBS) such as computer, engineering, R&D and testing services etc. Following [1] and [10] are KIBS further divided as technology and professional according aggregated subsectors (see Table 1).…”

“…It is well known, that the knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) as a small proportion of all services, is significant in terms of economic benefits and as the key part of the growth in value added, employment and labour productivity [1]. The recognition of the relevance of KIBS firms is becoming especially acute in the European Union [2] and even more important for many emerging economies [3,4]. The empirical analysis of the Visegrad countries conducted by [4] revealed, that despite of just a few years of development of advanced services in Central and Eastern Europe, they already play an important role as advance business providers, however many countries do not reveal much data (out of the V4 countries, only Hungary and Poland provide data such as FDI).…”

Foresight Technology To Stimulate Innovative Activity: Opportunities And Restrictions

“…The methodology of Rapid Foresight can be considered as a modernized technology of regional foresight. This methodology is presented in the manual (Miles, Belousova, & Chichkanov, 2017).…”

The knowledge intensity and the economic performance in Taiwan’s knowledge intensity business services

“…The service sector plays a key role to employment growth and increased public wellbeing in OECD countries (Miles, Belousova, & Chichkanov, 2017;OECD, 2012;2017). The expected economic performance of knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) is higher levels of productivity and profitability/margin than traditional manufacturing industries (Bontis, 2003;Cusumano, Kahl, & Suarez, 2015;Rabetino, Kohtam€ aki, Lehtonen, & Kostama, 2015;Smith, Maull, & Ng, 2014;Visnjic, Weingarten, & Neely, 2016).…”

“…KIBS has been discussed widely (Antonelli, 1999;Corrocher, Cusmano & Morrison, 2009;den Hertog & Bilderbeek, 1999;Fernandes, Ferreira, & Marques, 2015;Freel, 2006;Miles, 2005;Miles et al, 2017;Miozzo, Desyllas, Lee, & Miles, 2016;Muller & Doloreux, 2009;Muller & Zenker, 2001;Sirilli & Evangelista, 1998;Zenker & Doloreux, 2008), and it is thought that KIBS could bring greater economic performance through the utilisation of knowledge. It is clear from this perspective that the intensity of knowledge in KIBS forms the important sources of competitive advantages.…”