DUI it yourself: Innovation and activities to promote learning by doing, using, and interacting within the firm

Implicitly or explicitly, much innovation policy treats investments in research and development (R&D) as the main input to innovation. A large body of literature studies has challenged this, highlighting role external sources based on learning by doing, using interacting (DUI). Nonetheless, there been limited empirical how firm-internal activities promote DUI affect innovation, important such are relative internal R&D knowledge. We also know little about interact with knowledge sourcing. address these gaps Norwegian Community Innovation Survey data from 2010. find that is an driver new-to-market product Further, results show partial substitution effects between R&D, well DUI.