Types of innovation and inter-firm co-operation

Propris, Lisa De

doi:10.1080/08985620210144974

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“…La revisión realizada por (Becheikh et al, 2006) confirma que la amplia mayoría de los estudios encuentran una relación significativa entre éste y la innovación; ya sea relacionándolo con el dinamismo tecnológico (Evangelista et al, 1997, Kalantaridis and Pheby, 1999, Wong et al, 2003, De Propris, 2002, Quadros et al, 2001, Uzun, 2001, Pavitt, 1984, Baker and Sweeney, 1978, Miller and Friesen, 1982; la demanda del sector (Baptista and Swann, 1998, Michie and Sheehan, 2003, Zahra, 1993a, Cooper, 1980 (Cooper et al, 1999, Smoot and Strong, 2006a, Camisón Zornoza et al, 2003, Rothwell, 1992b, West and Fundación COTEC para la Innovación tecnológica, 2002, Damanpour andSchneider, 2006); la estructuración del sector (Blundell et al, 1999, Koeller, 1995, Koeller, 1996, Zahra, 1993b, Nielsen, 2001, Smolny, 2003; o la ubicación dentro de un clúster (Ibrahim and Fallah, 2005) (Pouder and St. John, 1996, Baptista, 2000, Cooke, 2001, Tracey and Clark, 2003, Jiang and Min-Fei, 2008, Hervas-Oliver and Albors-Garrigos, 2009).…”

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La gestión de la innovación en las empresas vascas. El papel de las herramientas de gestión de la innovación en la eficiencia de la misma y en la de los resultados de innovación.

López¹,

Ignácio²

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La gestión de la innovación en las empresas vascas. El papel de las herramientas de gestión de la innovación en la eficiencia de la misma y en la de los resultados de innovación.

López¹,

Ignácio²

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“…However, it comes at risk of technology leakage to rivals and a loss of control over the innovative process (Ritala and Hurmelinna-Laukkanen 2012). From an empirical perspective, some studies have found a positive correlation between horizontal collaboration and innovation (Quintana-Garcia and Benavides-Velasco 2004;Najib and Kiminami 2011), while others did not find any evidence that horizontal collaboration was significant explaining innovation among SMEs (De Propris 2002;Freel and Harrison 2006). Vertical networks are composed of different partners of the chain involved in all upstream and downstream flows of products, services, finances, and information.…”

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Networking and innovation within the ornamental plant sector

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Taragola²,

Kühne

et al. 2015

Agric Econ

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The ornamental plant cultivation could benefit from networking, as the locus of innovation is no longer the individual farm, but increasingly the network within which the farm is embedded. The main contribution of this paper is to shed light on the relation between networking and innovation and the influencing factors for networking as leverage for innovation within the ornamental plant sector. In contrast to the majority of the innovation studies, which are focusing on technological innovation i.e. product and process innovations, this study includes also marketing and organizational innovations. By looking at the link between innovation type and network partner, we found that network partners differ depending on the innovation type. Furthermore, this study provides insights into the factors influencing networking in the ornamental plant sector in particular. The results lead to implications for ornamental plant growers and network coordinators. It is important that growers are aware of the merit of partner suitability for the innovation type they are aiming at. For network coordinators, it is important to set up a clear strategy and communicate for which innovations their network can advise and help the farmer. They could focus on improving their approachability and try to increase the added value of activities by aligning them better with farmers' needs.

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“…Cooperation among competitors in the provision of industry-specific skills is beneficial to establish training standards and also lowers the costs of investment in skills and information sharing [55]. Such relationships can improve a firm's innovation capability [56][57][58][59] and are the source of "collective efficiency" [60], i.e., competitive advantage generated by the local external economy and joint action. Firstly, firms of the same trade have similar worker skill demands.…”

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Sustaining Regional Advantages in Manufacturing: Skill Accumulation of Rural–Urban Migrant Workers in the Coastal Area of China

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Extant research pays little attention to unorganized migrant workers' skill accumulation/upgrading from the perspective of the labor supply. This paper takes China as an example to explore the factors influencing the skill accumulation of rural-urban migrant workers (RUMWs), with the purpose of discovering how to sustain or reshape regional competitive advantages by improving RUMWs' skill accumulation. Structured questionnaire surveys were adopted for data collection in Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province and Taizhou City, Zhejiang Province located in the Yangtze River Delta in eastern China. In total, 700 questionnaires were issued and 491 effective questionnaires were recovered. It takes the perspective of individual laborers, with special regard to the effects of localization on the laborers' skill accumulation within the context of globalization. It adopts a broad viewpoint including intra-firm skill-biased strategy (as a response to intense competition), inter-firm relationships, and the accessibility of local non-firm organizations. The findings indicate that firms' skill preference, which impacts employees' skills and innovation ability and stimulates them to learn with initiative, have a significant influence on RUMWs' skill accumulation. In terms of collective efficiency based on the co-competitive relationship between local firms, the more intensive interactions are, the more opportunities RUMWs are afforded for skill accumulation. The accessibility of local institutions and favorable policies also benefit RUMWs' skill accumulation. In addition, the place itself, as a synthesized space of a firm's internal labor-management relations and inter-organizational relations, also exerts an influence on and causes regional differences in RUMWs' skill accumulation.

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Types of innovation and inter-firm co-operation

Cited by 161 publications

References 11 publications

La gestión de la innovación en las empresas vascas. El papel de las herramientas de gestión de la innovación en la eficiencia de la misma y en la de los resultados de innovación.

La gestión de la innovación en las empresas vascas. El papel de las herramientas de gestión de la innovación en la eficiencia de la misma y en la de los resultados de innovación.

Networking and innovation within the ornamental plant sector

Sustaining Regional Advantages in Manufacturing: Skill Accumulation of Rural–Urban Migrant Workers in the Coastal Area of China

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