The effect of innovation activities on innovation outputs in the Brazilian industry: Market-orientation vs. technology-acquisition strategies

Frank, Alejandro Germán; Cortimiglia, Marcelo Nogueira; Ribeiro, José Luís Duarte; Oliveira, Lindomar Subtil de

doi:10.1016/j.respol.2015.11.011

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“…First, because a large number of firms that conduct disembodied TI activities also conducted embodied TI. Second, embodied TI activities are commonplace among the innovative firms in Uruguay (Bianchi et al, 2015) and in other developed and developing countries (Frank et al, 2016;Ballot et al, 2015). Therefore, the analysis of firm that conduct only embodied TI activities may reflect the idiosyncratic innovative behaviour of a specific number of firms rather than an innovative pattern.…”

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Linking workforce diversity in education, technological innovation strategies and firms´ organization

Bello‐Pintado¹,

Bianchi²

2017

Blucher Engineering Proceedings

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Abstract:This paper analyses the relationship between workforce diversity in education and skills and the propensity to engage in technological innovation (TI) activities in in the Uruguayan manufacture industry. We have distinguished between embodied and disembodied TI. Results show a positive and significant relationship between both diversity in education and skills and disembodied TI activities. Moreover, the moderating role of flexible forms of work organization is positive and significant for diversity in education when firms engage in disembodied TI.Keywords: diversity in education; diversity in skills; disembodied technological innovation; work organization JEL codes: O32 M14 L60 Resumo:O artigo analisa a relação entre a diversidade em educação e competências da força de trabalho e a propensão inovadora das empresas na indústria uruguaia de transformação. Com o intuito de identificar diferentes estratégias inovadoras, distingue-se entre inovações incorporadas em bens de capital de aquelas desincorporadas que a empresa desenvolve. Observa-se um efeito de mediação positiva das formas avançadas de organização do trabalho na relação entre diversidade e propensão inovadora, mas somente quando em aquelas empresas que desenvolveram inovações não incorporadas.Palavras chave: diversidade em educação; inovação tecnológica não incorporada, organização do trabalho Código JEL: O32 M14 L60 2

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Linking workforce diversity in education, technological innovation strategies and firms´ organization

Bello‐Pintado¹,

Bianchi²

2017

Blucher Engineering Proceedings

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“…But as suppliers acquire the abilities to handle the entire working process, asymmetry in power and control between global and local actors may operate as a barrier to the development of local competitiveness in the sphere of design, marketing, and branding, which are typically considered the core competencies of global lead firms. Related to this argument, recent studies observed that knowledge transfers flowing from interaction with MNCs tend to be confined to the sphere of production, mostly localizing efforts of innovation outcomes produced in first-world economies [43]. Thus, to ensure the sustainability of industrial strategies through participation in GPNs, developing countries should focus on how to avoid being locked into quasi-hierarchical value chain governance and translate 'organizational succession' into reality.…”

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The Sustainability of Global Chain Governance: Network Structures and Local Supplier Upgrading in Thailand

Cho

Lim

2016

Sustainability

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Abstract:Although it has been widely accepted that insertion into global production networks may play a critical role in fostering local supplier upgrading, scholars have yet to fully incorporate heterogeneous configurations of buyer-supplier relationships within networks into empirical testing. Using a representative sample of manufacturing firms in Thailand, we propose a more nuanced empirical framework that asks which features of buyer-supplier relationships are related to which aspects of local supplier upgrading. Our findings, derived from latent class analysis, show that the ways value chains are governed can exert varying effects on different types of technological upgrading. Being a multinational corporation (MNC) supplier was found to have positive effects on process and minor product upgrading, irrespective of the types of buyer-supplier networks. However, we found a more radical type of upgrading (i.e., the development of own brands) to be negatively related to insertion into 'quasi-hierarchical' or 'buyer-driven relationships', whilst involvement in 'cooperative networks' was associated with a significantly higher tendency of product and brand upgrading. Understanding this inherent relationality provides a crucial balance to previous firm-level findings, suggesting that the sustainability of participation in global value chains depends on the relational structures in which local manufacturers are embedded.

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“…In this context, Brazil stands out in general for maintaining low investments in R&D; economic and political volatility; high levels of corruption; decline in recognition of the number of workers in slave condition; low quality of education, low capacity of industries to generate innovation, often transferred from foreign sources and financial constraints. Another disadvantage is the percentage of GDP invested in R&D that is below 1.2%, while EU countries invest over 2% and OECD members above 2.5% (FRANK et al, 2016).…”

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“…The National Innovation System has evolved in recent years between 1980 and 2008, with increased investments in R&D, increased intellectual property, implementation of policy instruments that support innovation, improvement in education, improvement in the performance of Science and Technology institutions (S&T) in terms of publications, visibility and innovation; institutional support to more structured innovation and development modalities being created by the Financier of Studies and Projects (FINEP -in Portuguese), or by the National Bank for Economic and Social Development (BNDES -in Portuguese) (FRANK et al, 2016 According to the FINEP website, it was create in July 1967 to finance the preparation of studies for economic development projects and programs, as well as to improve national technology. With the creation of the then Ministry of Science and Technology (MCT), in March 1985, FINEP became associated with it.…”

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Comparison Between Brazil and the 30 Most Innovative Countries in the World

Moser

Oliveira

2018

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Abstract:The objective of this study was present the behaviour of Brazil in relation to the most innovative countries in the world when faced with macroeconomic, political and social variables. Through an analysis where the Grouping Technique was use, being considered the Euclidean distance and representing these groups with dendrograms in the years from 2012 to 2016. After this analysis was constructed, a Chebyshev Inequality Test for the year of 2016 with the purpose of identifying how much Brazil needs to improve its positioning in the presented variables to be in the cluster of the most innovative countries in the world. Key words: Innovation, Technological Innovation, Innovative Countries, Innovative Environment.Resumo: O objetivo deste estudo foi apresentar o comportamento do Brasil em relação aos países mais inovadores do mundo diante das variáveis macroeconômicas, políticas e sociais. Por meio de uma análise onde foi utilizada a Técnica de Agrupamento, sendo considerada a distância Euclidiana, representando esses grupos com dendrogramas dos anos de 2012 a 2016. Após as análises, foi construído um Teste de Desigualdade de Chebyshev para o ano de 2016 com o objetivo de identificar como o Brasil precisa melhorar seu posicionamento nas variáveis apresentadas para estar no cluster dos países mais inovadores do mundo.

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The effect of innovation activities on innovation outputs in the Brazilian industry: Market-orientation vs. technology-acquisition strategies

Cited by 169 publications

References 90 publications

Linking workforce diversity in education, technological innovation strategies and firms´ organization

Linking workforce diversity in education, technological innovation strategies and firms´ organization

The Sustainability of Global Chain Governance: Network Structures and Local Supplier Upgrading in Thailand

Comparison Between Brazil and the 30 Most Innovative Countries in the World

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