Perception of innovation barriers by successful and unsuccessful innovators in emerging economies

Fuentes, Claudia De; Santiago, Fernando; Temel, Serdal

doi:10.1007/s10961-018-9706-0

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“…As we saw, human capital has a statistically significant association with export product quality only in the low-income group. This underscores the importance of overcoming educational barriers in regions lacking technological capacities (Chen & Puttitanun, 2005;Chu et al, 2014;De Fuentes et al, 2020); however, for the middle-income groups, a measure of more advanced human…”

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“…As we saw, human capital has a statistically significant association with export product quality only in the low‐income group. This underscores the importance of overcoming educational barriers in regions lacking technological capacities (Chen & Puttitanun, 2005; Chu et al, 2014; De Fuentes et al, 2020); however, for the middle‐income groups, a measure of more advanced human capital accumulation, such as R&D training, might serve as a better control variable. Tariffs mostly have a negative association with export quality, but interestingly the relationship is strongly significant only in the pooled‐sample, low‐income group, and in the high IP or highly patent intensive sample of products.…”

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Export quality and patent protection: Stage‐dependent effects in development

Yan

Park

2020

Review Development Economics

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This paper provides empirical evidence on the effects of patent protection on the vertical innovation of developing country exporters. We find that the relationship between export quality upgrading and patent protection is dependent on the technological stage of an economy. Specifically, patent protection promotes quality growth if an economy's product quality is sufficiently close to the world frontier level. We characterize the density of the distribution of country products, determining the share of country-product combinations that fall under or pass a threshold, and draw some implications for patent policy design. While a majority of combinations exceed the critical threshold, the results nevertheless call for differentiation in the strength of patent protection by income group and product class. To establish these findings, we employ a very extensive index of export product quality at the four-digit SITC level and utilize a country-level measure of effective patent protection for the period 1990-2010.

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Export quality and patent protection: Stage‐dependent effects in development

Yan

Park

2020

Review Development Economics

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“…The role of government is particularly important when the NPD was aimed at products that were perceived as significantly new by the market and required adaptation of existing regulation or was affecting the position of existing companies. In such cases of NPD, market regulation (Santiago et al , 2017) and access to finance (De Fuentes et al , 2020) were considered important for firms for NPD to ensure they can implement their NPD strategies successfully. Based on these findings in emerging economies (Table 1 for an overview), it seems that most studies have investigated the external factors influencing innovation activities.…”

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“…This is because, through the 1990s the innovation was perceived to be “a privilege of advanced economies and seen just as an end of development and less as a means to it” by scholars and policymakers (Zanello et al , 2016, p. 885). Nevertheless, the scope of research has recently expanded to emerging economies, following the increasing importance of these markets for the global economy (Subramaniam et al , 2015; Durst et al , 2018; Guerrero et al , 2019; De Fuentes et al , 2020). Especially from the early 2000s, emerging economies with regional growth opportunities have become more attractive for multinationals seeking new markets.…”

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“…A broader perspective addressing further emerging economies can shed more light on the issue (Durst et al , 2018). For this reason, it is particularly important to pay attention to the conditions for NPD success in a country such as Turkey, where a limited number of firms tend to perform NPD (De Fuentes et al , 2020), despite various R&D and innovation programs supported by the governments, especially since past 15 years.…”

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Drivers and barriers of new product development success: evidence from an emerging economy setting country-Turkey

Duran

Temel

Scholten

2021

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Purpose Context characteristics of emerging economies differ significantly from those in developed economies. Considering this substantial difference, this study aims to identify the drivers and barriers for new product development (NPD) success in the context of an emerging economy by drawing on the resource-based view. Design/methodology/approach Data was collected from firms in different sectors in the Aegean Region of Turkey using the Wageningen Innovation Assessment Tool. Of 189 responses, 94 fit the criteria and used for statistical analysis. The data is analyzed using a two-step procedure, namely, a confirmatory factor analysis followed by a binary logistic regression that is used to model the probability in the study of the success of NPD. Findings The results reveal that along with the context characteristics of an emerging economy setting, internal capabilities matter for NPD success. Based on interviews with NPD managers, it was found that, among other factors, the close relationship with local customers is key for new product success, while introducing high innovative products to the market of an emerging economy may not be appropriate due to the specific conditions of such economies. Practical implications This study will be useful to the managers to understand the extent to which the degree of newness of a product affects NPD success in an emerging economy setting. It also highlights the importance of securing firm resources before starting an innovation activity in this setting where resources such as financial resources, knowledge and physical resources are limited. From a policy perspective, this study provides certain insights as well. That is, government officials in emerging economies should be very careful about their informal actions that might disrupt the investment and innovation environment. Originality/value Emerging economies are important for large firms seeking growth. They initiate manufacturing activities and increasingly perform innovation activities in those countries. However, the conditions to innovate are different from those in developed economies. Research into the factors that drive innovation is largely in an embryonic state. This study offers NPD researchers a deeper understanding of the drivers and barriers to innovation, particularly internal ones that may affect the NPD success in an emerging economy setting, in this case, that of Turkey. The results provide suggestions for policymakers to consider during the development of new innovation policies. For practitioners, this study outlines novel combinations of internal factors that lead to NPD success.

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