Innovation, networking and complementarity: evidence on SME performances for a local economic system in North-Eastern Italy

Mancinelli, Susanna; Mazzanti, Massimiliano

doi:10.1007/s00168-008-0255-6

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“…The findings suggest the resource allocation capability is the strongest driver of the overall innovation capacity among auto-maker SMEs in Iran (β = 0.848), while communication and networking capability was found to be the least important but yet significant contribution to sustain the overall innovation capacity. This finding is partially inconsistent with the part of literature in which communication and networking was identified as the most important factor for SMEs to become innovative [20,50]. One possible explanation may be due to the fact that communication and networking is in its infancy stages in Iran resulting to incomplete understanding of the actual benefits achieved through communication and networking.…”

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Designing and Validating a Model for Measuring Sustainability of Overall Innovation Capability of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises

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Abstract:The business environment is currently characterized by intensified competition at both the national and firm levels. Many studies have shown that innovation positively affect firms in enhancing their competitiveness. Innovation is a dynamic process that requires a continuous, evolving, and mastered management. Evaluating the sustainability of overall innovation capability of a business is a major means of determining how well this firm effectively and efficiently manages its innovation process. A psychometrically valid scale of evaluating the sustainability of overall innovation capability of a firm is still insufficient in the current innovation literature. Thus, this study developed a reliable and valid scale of measuring the sustainability of overall innovation capability construct. The unidimensionality, reliability, and several validity components of the developed scale were tested using the data collected from 175 small and medium-sized enterprises in Iran. A series of systematic statistical analyses were performed. Results of the reliability measures, exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses, and several components of validity tests strongly supported an eight-dimensional (8D) scale of measuring the sustainability of overall innovation capability construct. The dimensions of the scale were strategic management, supportive culture and OPEN ACCESSSustainability 2015, 7 538 structure, resource allocation, communication and networking, knowledge and technology management, idea management, project development, and commercialization capabilities.

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Designing and Validating a Model for Measuring Sustainability of Overall Innovation Capability of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises

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“…For instance, in the top left quadrant high growth may be achieved through high levels of investment in local network capital, manifested by a high density of regional inter-organisational networks with high stocks of valuable knowledge. This approach resembles that commonly associated in the past with regions such as Silicon Valley, Route 128, and the Italian industrial districts (Saxenian, 1994;Benner, 2003;Bresnahan and Gambardella, 2004;Mancinelli and Mazzanti, 2009). An alternative growth approach is one based on high levels of investment in global network capital (bottom left quadrant), through investments in high value cross regional inter-organisational networks.…”

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A Network-based view of regional growth

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2013

Journal of Economic Geography

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The need to better understand the mechanisms underlying regional growth patterns is widely recognised. This paper argues that regional growth is partly a function of the value created through inter-organisational flows of knowledge within and across regions. It is proposed that investment in calculative networks by organisations to access knowledge is a form of capital, termed network capital, which should be incorporated into regional growth models. The paper seeks to develop a framework to capture the value of network capital within these models based on the spatial configuration and the nature of the knowledge flowing through networks.

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“…Networks are particularly important as 'conduits' for moving and processing knowledge, and they gradually become the main 'locus' of combination of diverse knowledge and complementary resources, and creation of novel knowledge and innovation at a network level (Capaldo 2014;Mancinelli and Mazzanti 2009;Salavisa et al 2012;Zeng et al 2010). Networks offer substantial comparative advantages in coordinating knowledgeintensive activities at the inter-organizational level; their social mechanisms increase the propensity of network participants to share relevant information, to transfer knowledge across organizational boundaries, and to generate new knowledge.…”

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Evolving ICT and governance in organizational networks - Conceptual and theoretical foundations

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Both private and public sector organizations tend to participate in networks in order to gain access to knowledge, skills and resources of other organizations and to create synergies to achieve highly demanding and complex goals they cannot attain individually. The governance of these networks has been recognized as being an important variable influencing organizational network performance. This Special Issue aims to contribute to the investigation and understanding of the relationships between ICT and governance of organizational networks. This introductory paper provides the conceptual and theoretical background. The relationship between network governance and technology is bi-directional; evolutions in ICT enable the development of new types of network collaborations and governance, whereas governance of collaboration networks is critical for the development of complex ICT infrastructures. We argue that network governance should be conceptualized as an evolving socio-technical process shaped by actors and aimed at tackling complex and dynamic contemporary challenges.

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Innovation, networking and complementarity: evidence on SME performances for a local economic system in North-Eastern Italy

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Cited by 77 publications

References 65 publications

Designing and Validating a Model for Measuring Sustainability of Overall Innovation Capability of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises

Designing and Validating a Model for Measuring Sustainability of Overall Innovation Capability of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises

A Network-based view of regional growth

Evolving ICT and governance in organizational networks - Conceptual and theoretical foundations

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