This paper examines how a sectoral innovation system evolves over time and what the underlying factors derive from the development of automotive industry in Thailand which is presented as a case example. Since 1960's, the government policies and the development of liberal investment climate have been a push for the in°ux of large-scale foreign direct investments (FDI) in Thailand. Automotive in...

The aim of this study is to understand the influence of social information systems (SIS) on absorptive capacity (AC) and innovation in Austrian SMEs. For this purpose, a framework was developed and empirically tested using a nationwide, mixed-mode survey on a random sample of 138 SMEs of knowledge-intensive industries. The results show that the backbone of SIS utilization is SIS governance. SIS...

Today, knowledge economies are a key asset for global competitiveness. Biotechnology is a knowledge-driven sector because it consists of knowledge working on knowledge to create value, decoding in genomics and proteomics being paradigmatic knowledge-based economic activity. Like many other new economy industries such as information and communications technology, new media, and advanced finance,...

We relate the sources of innovation market failure to the dominant mode of sectoral innovation and outline mechanisms for public support of innovation that target specific sources of innovation market failure. q 2000 Elsevier Science B.V. All

This paper aims to study some of the factors that influence the sectoral diffusion of innovation. The final objective is to arrive at a model of innovation diffusion in order to analyse how different economic policies can help to promote it. In the first place, an exploratory analysis is carried out in which some new statistics such as the sectoral autocorrelation coefficient are used. Secondly...

This thesis is concerned with the organisation of innovation in the interaction between multinational companies and host-country innovation systems. It proposes a framework for characterising the decentralised governance of innovation projects in sectors and identifying emerging organisational configurations in this specific context. The general characteristics of the project-based knowledge ne...

The study aims to understand the influence of social information systems (SIS) on absorptive capacity (AC) and innovation in Austrian small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). For this purpose, a framework was developed and empirically tested using a nationwide, mixed-mode survey on a random sample of 138 SMEs of knowledge-intensive industries. The results show that the backbone of SIS utiliza...

This paper explores patterns of transformation of socialist S&T systems into postsocialist systems of innovation and their determinants. First, we reinterpret the socialist period from a systems of innovation perspective by revisiting the socialist S&T system and by pointing to its general features as well as to its national and sectoral variations. Second, we develop a conceptual model to help...

In this paper we assess how important “industry” is to innovation. Our empirical estimates suggest that “industry factors” are, at most, only moderately important for R&D, innovation and innovative performance at the firm level. The results offer empirical support to recent evolutionary theorizing stressing that firms have heterogeneous innovative capabilities and hence differ in terms of perfo...

Customer collaborative product innovation (CCPI) is a novel pattern of new product development (NPD) to integrate customers and their knowledge as the main innovative agents and resources. In CCPI, conflict is an intrinsic and inevitable phenomenon. Conflict contagion, however, is a neglected but crucial issue for the CCPI conflict management. In order to study the mechanism and process of CCPI...