Receptive Capacity of Established Industries as a Limiting Factor in the Economy's Rate of Innovation¹

Robertson, Paul L.; Pol, Eduardo; Carroll, Peter

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“…This is, a fortiori, the case in small companies that do not have the resources and organization to mount large R&D and human resource development programmes' (4-5). This non-R&D view on innovation is supported by the fact that economy in real terms is more than 90% based on the LMT sectors (Robertson, Pol, and Carroll 2003).…”

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The role of a firm's absorptive capacity and the technology transfer process in clusters: How effective are technology centres in low-tech clusters?

Hervás-Oliver

Garrigós

de-Miguel

et al. 2012

Entrepreneurship & Regional Development

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This paper analyses how the internal resources of small-and medium-sized enterprises determine access (learning processes) to technology centres (TCs) or industrial research institutes (innovation infrastructure) in traditional low-tech clusters. These interactions basically represent traded (market-based) transactions, which constitute important sources of knowledge in clusters. The paper addresses the role of TCs in low-tech clusters, and uses semi-structured interviews with 80 firms in a manufacturing cluster. The results point out that producer-user interactions are the most frequent; thus, the higher the sector knowledge-intensive base, the more likely the utilization of the available research infrastructure becomes. Conversely, the sectors with less knowledge-intensive structures, i.e. less absorptive capacity (AC), present weak linkages to TCs, as they frequently prefer to interact with suppliers, who act as transceivers of knowledge. Therefore, not all the firms in a cluster can fully exploit the available research infrastructure, and their AC moderates this engagement. In addition, the existence of TCs is not sufficient since the active role of a firm's search strategies to undertake interactions and conduct openness to available sources of knowledge is also needed. The study has implications for policymakers and academia.

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The role of a firm's absorptive capacity and the technology transfer process in clusters: How effective are technology centres in low-tech clusters?

Hervás-Oliver

Garrigós

de-Miguel

et al. 2012

Entrepreneurship & Regional Development

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“…Although our data are limited to the Netherlands, we would argue that generalisation is permissible for countries that also have low-tech industries with a relatively high performance, as the Dutch F&B industry. As low-and medium-tech industries are often major customers of high-tech innovators (Robertson et al, 2003), together they form the essential pillar in advanced regional or national economies. For that reason we can conclude that this generalisation applies to countries that have a combination of relatively high performing low-, medium-and high-tech industries and would include most Scandinavian and other North-western European countries (Robertson and Patel, 2007).…”

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Product innovation in the Dutch food and beverage industry

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2009

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“…ser las más relevantes en términos de generación de producto, empleo y capital invertido, son las principales consumidoras de innovaciones de alta tecnología (Robertson, Pol y Carroll, 2003). Consecuentemente, el crecimiento de actividades de alta tecnología depende, en gran medida, del crecimiento de otras actividades conexas generalmente menos intensivas en i+d (Hauknes y Knell, 2009;Robertson y Patel, 2007).…”

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Construyendo capacidades tecnológicas en escenarios inestables: empresas manufactureras argentinas y brasileñas

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2015

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RESUMENDesde la década de 1970, el contexto macroeconómico en la Argentina y el Brasil se caracterizó por cambios económicos drásticos e inestabilidad. En numerosos estudios se ha documentado el efecto generalmente negativo de ese entorno en las capacidades de innovación del sector manufacturero. En este trabajo, en cambio, se analiza el posible surgimiento de nuevas capacidades de innovación en dicho período, revelándose dos fenómenos importantes. Primero, un número no menor de empresas, incluso en entornos inestables, redoblaron sus esfuerzos innovadores. Segundo, estas empresas se concentran en un grupo reducido de sectores relacionados con las ventajas estáticas de estos países o en sectores favorecidos por regímenes sectoriales específicos. Los resultados encontrados, aunque exploratorios, contribuyen a la discusión sobre la construcción de capacidades innovadoras en contextos macroeconómicos inestables y la capacidad de los sectores vinculados a las ventajas estáticas de ambos países para generar espacios de innovación y creación de valor. PALABRAS CLAVEIndustria, productos manufacturados, condiciones económicas, innovaciones tecnológicas, investigación y desarrollo, datos estadísticos, Argentina, Brasil CLASIFICACIÓN JEL

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Receptive Capacity of Established Industries as a Limiting Factor in the Economy's Rate of Innovation¹

Cited by 26 publications

References 25 publications

The role of a firm's absorptive capacity and the technology transfer process in clusters: How effective are technology centres in low-tech clusters?

The role of a firm's absorptive capacity and the technology transfer process in clusters: How effective are technology centres in low-tech clusters?

Product innovation in the Dutch food and beverage industry

Construyendo capacidades tecnológicas en escenarios inestables: empresas manufactureras argentinas y brasileñas

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