Start-ups, Innovation and Knowledge Spillovers

Audretsch, David B.; Belitski, Maksim; Caiazza, Rosa

doi:10.1007/s10961-021-09846-5

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“…To innovate, firms can invest in internal research and development or stimulate external sources of knowledge. These external sources of knowledge can be exchanged through spillovers, collaborations, or direct market operations, like technology licensing [23][24][25]. The management of knowledge spillovers implies two directions of knowledge flow along the boundaries of the firm: an outside-in movement and an inside-out movement [26].…”

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Open-Innovation Practices: Diversity in Portuguese SMEs

Almeida

2021

Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity

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This study aimed to explore the diversity of open-innovation practices that are adopted in Portuguese SMEs considering the outside-in, inside-out, and coupled paradigms. A quantitative study was carried out considering a sample of 187 Portuguese SMEs. The findings revealed that these organizations favored the adoption of the outside-in paradigm. The inside-out model was the least relevant, especially for smaller companies (i.e., small and micro-companies). The most adopted outside-in practices were the integration of external knowledge from suppliers and clients; in the inside-out model, licensing processes were more important; while in the coupled model, joint ventures and network consortiums stood out. The increase in the innovation capacity of these organizations was highlighted as the most relevant benefit, while the lack of resources and difficulties in integrating knowledge emerged as challenges. This study is especially relevant for the establishment of public-support policies that promote the involvement of Portuguese SMEs in open-innovation processes.

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Open-Innovation Practices: Diversity in Portuguese SMEs

Almeida

2021

Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity

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“…The proximity of the firm to its target market facilitates the achievement of commercial goals, and it helps attain valuable information about the likes and dislikes of customers and optimization of products and services through market information (Henriques et al, 2018). Audretsch, Belitski and Caiazza (2021) found supporting evidence for an increase in incremental innovation output for firms having a close and intense connection with customers. Conversely, Romijn and Albu (2002) found a statistically insignificant relationship between the creative output and its networking with customers.…”

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“…avoid troubles related to supporting services (Audretsch et al, 2021;Fukugawa, 2013). Moreover, sharing these facilities reduces the rental cost for tenants (Guadix et al, 2016).…”

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Why choose technology parks for business location in Pakistan

Ullah

Sami²,

Ahmad

et al. 2022

INMR

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PurposeTechnology parks (TPs) are used as a tool to improve economic outlook of the region through innovation generation. This study aims to evaluate the perception of tenants of TPs to determine the gap in the expectation and identify types of firms preferring to locate in a TP.Design/methodology/approachThis is the first study in Pakistan to collect data about perceived benefits of TPs in Pakistan from the decision-makers of 110 tenant firms. The cluster analysis and lift ratios are used to draw statistical inferences.FindingsThe firms can be classified into three clusters – commercial-orientation firms, science and technology-oriented firms and young tech firms – with distinct needs for survival and growth in a TP. Moreover, TPs should not just be treated as property projects for providing support services, also knowledge sharing, training and development opportunities and proximity to hubs of knowledge and markets is vital to attract a variety of industry.Originality/valueAcademia and policymakers have been equally interested in the potential impacts of these innovation hubs. However, there have been lack of empirical evidence on how and what to offer the incumbents of these TPs. The government of Pakistan is trying to build more TPs for promoting business activities under CPEC. Therefore, it is extremely important to determine the needs of tenants of TPs for successful utilization of huge amount of public money to be invested in TPs.

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“…2.1 Open Innovation in small family firms: the ability-willingness paradox A lot of research has been done on innovation in companies of different sizes and governance structures (Rogers, 2004;De Massis et al, 2013;De Massis et al, 2015a, b, 2018Audretsch et al, 2021). However, this research highlights the often-one-sided perspective of family firms, which behave cautiously and do not bring radical innovations to market (Rondi et al, 2019).…”

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Overcoming the ability-willingness paradox in small family firms’ collaborations

Guenther

Belitski

Rejeb³

2022

Small Bus Econ

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Family firms’ collaborative innovation is characterized by the so-called ability-willingness paradox i.e. they are less willing to engage in collaborations despite being more able to manage them for innovation purposes. In this paper, we introduce collaboration partner type and spatial proximity as two important boundary conditions of this paradox. We examine the differences in collaboration for innovation across different spatial proximities and partner types for small family and non-family firms. We use a large sample of 6272 small firms in the United Kingdom (UK) during 2002–2016 to show that this paradox is indeed not a universal phenomenon. Small family firms overcome their lower willingness when collaborating with customers within regional proximity and, based on their unique characteristics and superior ability to govern these collaborations, they are able to generate an innovation premium compared to small non-family firms.

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Start-ups, Innovation and Knowledge Spillovers

Cited by 65 publications

References 77 publications

Open-Innovation Practices: Diversity in Portuguese SMEs

Open-Innovation Practices: Diversity in Portuguese SMEs

Why choose technology parks for business location in Pakistan

Overcoming the ability-willingness paradox in small family firms’ collaborations

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