Cooperating for knowledge and innovation performance: the case of selected Central and Eastern European countries

Gyamfi, Solomon; Stejskal, Jan

doi:10.21511/ppm.18(4).2020.22

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“…In this paper, a quantitative approach was conducted and partial least squares structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM) analysis was employed to verify proposed hypotheses according to previous similar studies (Aloini and Martini 2013;Obeidat et al 2017;Gyamfi and Stejskal 2020). PLS-SEM is one of the most popular techniques in the social sciences.…”

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Mediating Role of Firm R&D in Creating Product and Process Innovation: Empirical Evidence from Norway

Sein

Prokop

2021

Economies

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Government funding actively engages in private R&D investment to enhance firm innovation. At the same time, firms are forced to find additional sources of competitive advantage, e.g., through cooperation based on the triple- or quadruple-helix principles. This paper analyses whether government funding and cooperation based on the triple-helix and quadruple-helix principles spur firms’ product and process innovation rather directly or indirectly, taking into account the role of firms R&D. For this purpose, we collect data from the Community Innovation Survey and analyse 5045 Norwegian firms by using partial least squares structural equation modelling. Our results confirm hypotheses that public funding and both triple-helix and quadruple-helix cooperation significantly influence firms’ research and development activities. Surprisingly, on the one hand, we showed that neither public funding nor triple- and quadruple-helix cooperation affect firms’ product innovation directly. Moreover, the results show a negative influence of government funding and triple- and quadruple-helix cooperation on Norwegian firms’ product innovation. On the other hand, process innovation is influenced positively and directly by firms’ cooperation based on the triple- and quadruple-helix principles. The results of our analyses clearly show the key role of firm’s R&D, which has proven to be a mediator of the effects of public funding and triple- and quadruple-helix cooperation on the product and process innovation activities of Norwegian firms.

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Mediating Role of Firm R&D in Creating Product and Process Innovation: Empirical Evidence from Norway

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Prokop

2021

Economies

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“…It can produce estimates with small sample size issues while measuring very complex models with many latent and manifest variables. PLS-SEM is given by the following equation [66,67]:…”

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Determinants of Sustainable Open Innovations—A Firm-Level Capacity Analysis

Gyamfi

Sein

2021

Sustainability

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Institutional constraints impede firms’ open innovation. They have been a challenge, obstructing growth and sustainable development. Research on open innovation has shown that the quality of institutions essentially affects innovation in firms. Hence, prior research has made efforts to incorporate the quality of institutions into open innovation analysis. We can use a series of analyses to examine the impact of corruption, the tax system, and other indicators on firm innovation performance. However, developing economies, such as countries in sub-Saharan Africa, represent a specific group of countries that have long been perceived as those mostly deficient in the rule of law, with poor regulatory quality and a great deal of corruption. In these countries, it is also possible to see a lower number of studies, as the inability to obtain quality data to perform empirical analyses can often limit researchers. Nevertheless, employing data from the World Bank’s 2019 Enterprise Survey, this research aimed at exploring the determinants of sustainable open innovation as well as the effect of institutional quality on firms’ capacity utilization and process innovation through a PLS structural equation model analysis. Our research showed interesting findings, such as the fact that the quality of institutions significantly affects firms’ use of OI instruments and capacity utilization. This research also provides for the novelty of the analysis of capacity utilization in an open innovation analysis. The results support the hypotheses that low institutional quality negatively affects firms’ implementation of inbound open innovation instruments, and that there is a strong and positive effect of low institutional quality on firms’ capacity utilization. In addition, we confirm the premise that firms’ implementation of inbound open innovation instruments has a positive and significant influence on firms’ process innovation.

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“…Specifically, quantitative data gathered from big companies or regions from CCIs are ruling when it comes to insights how CCIs are performing and what contribution thereof is on the economy at the general, regional and institutional scale [106,107]. This is true for both older [35,108] and more recent research outputs [109][110][111].…”

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Cultural and Creative Industries as Innovation and Sustainable Transition Brokers in the Baltic Sea Region: A Strong Tribute to Sustainable Macro-Regional Development

Gerlitz

Prause

2021

Sustainability

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Recent research shows increasing efforts to unfold the potential of Cultural and Creative Industries (CCIs) for regions in order to pursue new sources of innovation, competitive edge and to manifest sustainable and inclusive growth paths driven by creativity. Due to its strong commitments to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations, on the global level, the Baltic Sea Region (BSR) has become a role model in sustainable development. Yet, individual BSR countries face challenges in the implementation of those goals. In this light, by building on the intermediate results (2017–2020) of two EU Interreg projects—Creative Ports and CTCC—this research reveals CCIs’ potential for sustainable development avenues. The investigation is based on case study methodology underpinned by empirical data gathered from participating Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) and topical experts met during the projects’ implementation and study visits. The present multi-project applied research reduces the research-to-practice gap pertaining to the so far underestimated role of CCIs for supporting traditional SMEs in the implementation of their sustainable ideas. Once engaged into cross-sectoral collaboration with traditional SMEs, CCIs become important brokers—sustainable innovation drivers and enablers within regional ecosystems through contribution to environmentally responsible, socially equitable and economically feasible solutions for the business they work with. Thus, on the one hand, CCIs support SMEs in their transition towards more sustainable managerial performance. On the other hand, CCIs overcome disconnection and increase their recognition through new collaboration opportunities, thus providing them with new capitalization avenues on the regional and international level.

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Cooperating for knowledge and innovation performance: the case of selected Central and Eastern European countries

Cited by 6 publications

References 46 publications

Mediating Role of Firm R&D in Creating Product and Process Innovation: Empirical Evidence from Norway

Mediating Role of Firm R&D in Creating Product and Process Innovation: Empirical Evidence from Norway

Determinants of Sustainable Open Innovations—A Firm-Level Capacity Analysis

Cultural and Creative Industries as Innovation and Sustainable Transition Brokers in the Baltic Sea Region: A Strong Tribute to Sustainable Macro-Regional Development

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