Absorptive capacity, exporting activities, innovation openness and innovation performance: A SEM approach towards a unifying framework

Gkypali, Areti; Arvanitis, Spyros; Tsekouras, Kostas

doi:10.1016/j.techfore.2018.01.025

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“…Perhaps the most revealing result is the positive relationship, with a strong statistical significance, between Knowledge Absorption (I53) and both Knowledge and Technology Outputs (p = 0.0041) and Creative Outputs (p = 0.0002). This is in line with the absorption capacity perspective (Cohen and Levinthal, 1990), in which the ability to recognise and incorporate external knowledge into the firm's products and processes leads to higher levels of innovation (Gkypali et al, 2018).…”

Section: Eurozone Analysessupporting

confidence: 72%

The Drivers of National System of Innovation in Portugal: A Panel Data Analysis

Duarte

Carvalho

2020

J INFORM SYSTEMS ENG

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The growing awareness of the importance of national systems of innovation on countries' development led to an increased availability of instruments designed to measure and compare the innovative capacity of countries. Such instruments provide policymakers with a panoply of relevant information, with which they can stimulate innovation within their territory, thereby increasing national competitiveness. Among the most used innovation indices, the Global Innovation Index (GII) stands out by explicitly distinguishing innovation inputs and outputs, hence, drawing from its input-output framework and extant literature on innovation, we intend to answer the question: Which innovation inputs are more strongly related to innovative outputs? Thus, deriving policy implications aimed at improving Portugal's innovative readiness. To answer this question, and due to the crosssectional nature of the GII, we have developed our own panel dataset version composed by 92 countries in the period 2013-2018, which we then analyse through a series of multiple regression techniques, emphasising the results of Eurozone countries and comparing Portugal to them. Results suggest a strong, positive influence of Business Sophistication on innovation outputs in Eurozone countries, derived mainly from the capacity of domestic firms to absorb knowledge. Possible policy implications are derived from this fact, such as, for instance, an encouragement to inward foreign direct investment. However, further research is needed to analyse the differentiated effects of such encouragement, as well as for other surprising results of our study.

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Section: Eurozone Analysessupporting

confidence: 72%

The Drivers of National System of Innovation in Portugal: A Panel Data Analysis

Duarte

Carvalho

2020

J INFORM SYSTEMS ENG

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“…Extant literature shows that R&D collaborations with customers, suppliers and competitors improve a firm's innovative performance (Nijssen et al 2012;Harhoff et al 2014;Mention, 2011;Leiponen, 2010;Belderbos et al, 2004). However, each partner type may contribute differently to innovation performance (Gkypali et al, 2018). This is because when a firm collaborates with customers, suppliers or competitors, the proximity between the organizational structure, basic and specialised knowledge of the firm and each of the partner types differs (March, 1991;Lane and Lubatkin, 1998).…”

Section: Foreign Collaborations and Innovative Performancementioning

confidence: 99%

Experience in R&D collaborations, innovative performance and the moderating effect of different dimensions of absorptive capacity

Kafouros

Love

Ganotakis

et al. 2020

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

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Using a multi-stage research design and insights from organizational learning theory, we investigate how experience in R&D collaboration with different types of domestic and foreign partners (customers, suppliers, competitors) influences the formation of new R&D collaborations with foreign partners, and how such collaborations in turn affect firms' innovative performance. Our framework, which is tested against a sample of 8800 firms over a 9-year period, explains how experience with certain types of domestic partners helps firms establish foreign collaborations, particularly with the same partner types. It further explains why experience in foreign collaborations is more important for the formation of new collaborations abroad in relation to experience with domestic partner types. Moreover, it shows that collaborations with foreign partners are more beneficial than domestic collaborations for a firm's innovative performance and identifies which types of foreign R&D partnerships are more advantageous for enhancing innovation performance. Finally, it demonstrates that the performance-enhancing advantages of foreign partnerships are not equal for all firms but are dependent on certain dimensions of absorptive capacity. The effect that foreign suppliers have on a firm's innovative performance is further enhanced if a firm has adopted appropriate organizational practices designed to enhance external collaboration and the internal dissemination of external knowledge. Finally, firms gain more from foreign competitors if they possess high levels of employee skills.

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“…Thus, we have participated in several projects with universities of Castile and Leon to conduct research into products that we hope to introduce to the market soon. (SC4)The joint creation of innovative products or processes and the sharing of knowledge between researchers and entrepreneurs enable companies to incorporate knowledge acquired through these partnerships (Cohen and Levinthal 1990; Gkypali, Arvanitis, and Tsekouras 2018; Laursen and Salter 2006; Lin 2017). In addition, firms gain a better position in terms of technology that gives them competitive advantages and ensures their financial survival (Cunningham and Link 2015; Guerrero and Urbano 2017).…”

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One for All and All for One: Collaboration and Cooperation in Triple Helix Knowledge Cocreation

Mascarenhas

Marques

Ferreira

2019

International Regional Science Review

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If innovation is the engine of economies, the partnerships in the Triple Helix model of innovation are the fuel that makes this engine work. Although each member of this model has its defined role, the present study sought to gain a new perspective on these partnerships, including the role of governments. Based on interviews with representatives of universities, companies, and governments in two countries (i.e., Portugal and Spain), this research focused on how innovation partnerships are formed as well as what obstacles to cooperation can arise. The results show that governments can play the role not only of a financier and legislator but also of a direct participant in innovation by entering into partnerships with the other Triple Helix actors. In addition, this study revealed that, irrespective of which partners and needs are in question, these networks operate mostly with public funds.

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Absorptive capacity, exporting activities, innovation openness and innovation performance: A SEM approach towards a unifying framework

Cited by 72 publications

References 78 publications

The Drivers of National System of Innovation in Portugal: A Panel Data Analysis

The Drivers of National System of Innovation in Portugal: A Panel Data Analysis

Experience in R&D collaborations, innovative performance and the moderating effect of different dimensions of absorptive capacity

One for All and All for One: Collaboration and Cooperation in Triple Helix Knowledge Cocreation

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