How Firms Innovate: R&D, Non-R&D, and Technology Adoption
Non-R&D innovation is a common economic phenomenon, though R&D has been the centralfocus of policy making and scholarly research in the field of innovation. An analysis of the thirdEuropean Community Innovation Survey (CIS-3) results for 15 countries finds that almost halfof innovative European firms did not perform R&D in-house. Firms with weak in-houseinnovative capabilities and which source information from suppliers and competitors tend toinnovate through non-R&D activities. In contrast, firms that engage in product innovation, findclients, universities and research institutions an important information source for innovation, orapply for patents or use other appropriation methods are more likely to perform R&D. However,non-R&D performers do not form a consistent block, with several notable differences betweenfirms that use three different methods of innovating without performing R&D. Many of thesedeterminants also influence the share of total innovation expenditures that are spent on non-R&Dinnovation activities. Furthermore, an analysis of the determinants of the share of each firmstotal innovation expenditures for non-R&D activities shows that the factors that influence howinnovation expenditures are distributed is generally consistent across sectors and Europeancountries.
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2010
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Authors: | Huang, C ; Arundel, A ; Hollanders, H |
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United Nations University |
Subject: | Econometrics | Cross-Sectional Analysis |
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