When ‘national innovation system’ meet ‘varieties of capitalism’ arguments on labour qualifications: On the skill types and scientific knowledge needed for radical and incremental product innovations

Herrmann, Andrea; Peine, Alexander

doi:10.1016/j.respol.2011.02.004

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“…Employees in rigid labour markets therefore often have in-depth corporate knowledge and long-standing relationships with supplying companies. Such firm-specific skills enable them to autonomously propose and develop improvements that translate into incremental innovations and high-quality products (see Herrmann and Peine 2011) at the basis of stable yet slow-growth forms of entrepreneurship.…”

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“…Faced with the possibility of hire-and-fire at short notice, employees acquire general skills that are useful for, and thus adequately rewarded by, all firms needing a certain business function. General skills facilitate radical innovations, and new business ideas as employees are particularly imaginative and flexible in adapting to new corporate environments because of their frequent job changes (see Herrmann and Peine 2011). We therefore expect that flexible labourmarket institutions regulating permanent employment will facilitate the development of Schumpeterian entrepreneurial ventures.…”

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“…Given that Schumpeterian entrepreneurial ventures come up with radically new innovations, they are typically based on technological inventions developed by scientifically oriented workforces. Yet, workforces with scientific skills are not only educated within a country, they are also hired from abroad (Herrmann 2008;Herrmann and Peine 2011). The academic systems of the US, the UK, and the Netherlands are examples of countries that not only offer sophisticated scientific training but also attract high numbers of immigrant scientists.…”

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While entrepreneurship researchers agree that institutions 'matter' for entrepreneurship, they also have a rather encompassing understanding of institutions as almost any external factor that influences entrepreneurship. Ultimately, this literature thus comes up with a long list of institutional factors that may explain entrepreneurial differences between countries. But which institutions are most influential? How do these institutions relate to different types of entrepreneurship? And to what extent are institutions complementary to each other in the way they sustain different entrepreneurship types? The literature on 'Varieties-of-Capitalism' (VoC) offers a parsimonious theoretical framework to address these questions. Based on the VoC literature, we theoretically derive a consistent set of institutional indicators that can explain differences in entrepreneurship types between countries. Based on principal component and cluster analyses, we illustrate how 21 Western developed economies cluster around four distinct institutional settings. Furthermore, we use simple OLS regressions to show how these institutional constellations are related to different types of entrepreneurship. We conclude that four different 'Varieties of Entrepreneurship' can be identified across the Western world. The main implication of our findings is that a 'perfect' institutional constellation, equally facilitating different types of entrepreneurship, does not exist. Policy-makers seeking to stimulate entrepreneurship are thus faced with the trade-off of targeting policy reforms to that entrepreneurship type they intend to promote-at the expense of other types of entrepreneurship and the broader societal consequences such reforms will have.

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“…The Varieties of Capitalism argument stresses the ability of firms to draw on these innovations in the productive process, not their ability to make radical innovations. Firm-level studies using both approaches have found these to be potentially complementary, but in fact very distinct, phenomena (Herrmann & Peine, 2011).…”

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Varieties of Capitalism and institutional comparative advantage: A test and reinterpretation

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How do national-level institutions relate to national comparative advantages? We seek to shed light on this question by exploring two different sets of hypotheses based on the Varieties of Capitalism and other branches of comparative capitalisms literature. Applying fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis to data from 14 industries in 22 countries across 9 years, we find that comparative advantages in industries with radical innovation emerge in specific configurations mixing coordinated and liberal institutional features. Institutional comparative advantage in industries with radical innovation may thus be based on the ''beneficial constraints'' of opposing institutional logics rather than on the self-reinforcing institutional coherence envisioned in much of the Varieties of Capitalism literature. By contrast, we find that coordinated market economies may have comparative advantages in industries with incremental innovation, as envisioned in the Varieties of Capitalism literature. Our article contributes to our understanding of the ''so what?'' related to capitalist diversity and its implications for location decisions of multinational enterprises. We further present a coordination index going beyond Hall and Gingerich (Br J Polit Sci 39:449-482, 2009) with annual values for 22 OECD

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“…In general, scientific knowledge is associated with radical innovation, while general and high level vocational skills are associated with incremental innovation (for the reasons described above). Herrmann and Peine (2011) find that both general and specific skills are required for radical and incremental product innovation in R&D. They argue that specific skills can only be used within one industry, are "taught through apprenticeships or similar vocational training programmes" and are associated with lengthy job tenure (2011: 691). General skills in their study denote primarily university-trained scientists and exclude the vocationally trained.…”

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Perspectivas y debates acerca de la formación profesional, las capacidades, y las perspectivas de innovación

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This paper provides an overview of the theoretical perspectives and key debates regarding the role and contribution of the vocational education and training system (VET) and vocationally RESUMENEste artículo proporciona una visión general de las perspectivas teóricas y debates clave en relación con el papel y la contribución de la educación y el sistema de formación profesional (FP) a la innovación técnica. Se consideran las contribuciones a estos debates, a partir de los estudios de innovación, la investigación sobre variedades de capitalismo, la teoría neoclásica del capital humano y la disciplina de la organización del trabajo. Las diferencias entre los sistemas nacionales de FP se han relacionado con grandes disparidades en el nivel de cualificación y de 'skills', que a su vez constituyen un factor importante en la determinación de las diferencias en los patrones de innovación y de desempeño económico en las economías avanzadas. El artículo concluye abordando las barreras existentes a la contribución de la EFP a la innovación para la resolución de futuros retos sociales y económicos.Palabras clave: Formación Profesional, competencias, innovación, fuerza de trabajo técnica.

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When ‘national innovation system’ meet ‘varieties of capitalism’ arguments on labour qualifications: On the skill types and scientific knowledge needed for radical and incremental product innovations

Cited by 65 publications

References 17 publications

Varieties of entrepreneurship: exploring the institutional foundations of different entrepreneurship types through ‘Varieties-of-Capitalism’ arguments

Varieties of entrepreneurship: exploring the institutional foundations of different entrepreneurship types through ‘Varieties-of-Capitalism’ arguments

Varieties of Capitalism and institutional comparative advantage: A test and reinterpretation

Perspectivas y debates acerca de la formación profesional, las capacidades, y las perspectivas de innovación

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