Knowledge sources of innovation in a small open economy: The case of Singapore

Wong, Poh Kam; Ho, Yuen Ping

doi:10.1007/s11192-007-0201-x

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“…Countries with greater R&D resources probably approach the average world distribution, which causes inaccuracy in the indices of such countries (Wong, 2007).…”

Section: Productivity Growth Functionmentioning

confidence: 99%

R&D specialization and manufacturing productivity growth: A cross-country study

Chen

Chu

et al. 2015

Japan and the World Economy

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“…Countries with greater R&D resources probably approach the average world distribution, which causes inaccuracy in the indices of such countries (Wong, 2007).…”

Section: Productivity Growth Functionmentioning

confidence: 99%

R&D specialization and manufacturing productivity growth: A cross-country study

Chen

Chu

et al. 2015

Japan and the World Economy

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“…What has helped make its government policy encouragement of such local MNC development so effective is the openness of Singapore and the quality of its connections to other locations, which has given it excellent access to international knowledge sources. In 1976–2001, 59 per cent of Singaporean‐invented patents granted by the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) were foreign‐owned, and fully 97.5 per cent of patents cited by all Singaporean‐invented patents were invented outside Singapore, so the degree of dependence on international knowledge sources is extremely high (Wong and Ho, ). This is suggestive of the role of connections to international knowledge in domestic business development and creativity.…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

New Competence Creation in Multinational Company Subunits: The Role of International Knowledge

Cantwell

Piscitello

2014

World Economy

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It has been demonstrated that more creative innovative activities of subunits of multinational companies (MNCs) rely upon the munificence of local knowledge in the host country. Here, we argue that the strength of international business network connections of a host location influences the potential accessibility of international knowledge and hence tends to widen the domain of new knowledge search that can be successfully undertaken by an MNC subunit. This in turn increases the likelihood of an MNC subunit building new areas of competencies, that is, in fields of competencies which are relatively new to the MNC. Specifically, we suggest that the relevant international business network connections are those involving local actors in the MNC subunit's relevant industry. Moreover, geographical proximity between MNC subunits and their parent company has an inverse U‐shaped relationship with new competence creation by subunits. Using a balanced panel data set on innovative activities conducted abroad by 194 of the world's largest industrial firms from 1975 to 1995, we find support for our expectations.

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“…Science linkage is usually quantified as the total scientific papers cited in a patent. A growing number of researchers have applied patent citation techniques to analyze scientific innovations (Bacchiocchi & Montobbio, ; Bhattacharya, Kretschmer, & Meyer, ; Chen & Hicks, ; Hu, Chen, Huang, & Roco, ; Verbeek, Debackere, & Luwel, ; Wong & Ho, ). However, there has been much debate over the last few years regarding the interpretation of scientific papers cited in patents.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Patent citation analysis: Calculating science linkage based on citing motivation

Chambers

Ding

et al. 2014

Asso for Info Science & Tech

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Science linkage is a widely used patent bibliometric indicator to measure patent linkage to scientific research based on the frequency of citations to scientific papers within the patent. Science linkage is also regarded as noisy because the subject of patent citation behavior varies from inventors/applicants to examiners. In order to identify and ultimately reduce this noise, we analyzed the different citing motivations of examiners and inventors/ applicants. We built 4 hypotheses based upon our study of patent law, the unique economic nature of a patent, and a patent citation's market effect. To test our hypotheses, we conducted an expert survey based on our science linkage calculation in the domain of catalyst from U.S. patent data (2006-2009) over 3 types of citations: self-citation by inventor/applicant, non-self-citation by inventor/applicant, and citation by examiner. According to our results, evaluated by domain experts, we conclude that the non-self-citation by inventor/applicant is quite noisy and cannot indicate science linkage and that selfcitation by inventor/applicant, although limited, is more appropriate for understanding science linkage.

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Knowledge sources of innovation in a small open economy: The case of Singapore

Cited by 15 publications

References 36 publications

R&D specialization and manufacturing productivity growth: A cross-country study

R&D specialization and manufacturing productivity growth: A cross-country study

New Competence Creation in Multinational Company Subunits: The Role of International Knowledge

Patent citation analysis: Calculating science linkage based on citing motivation

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