Recently many researches have studied technological innovation capabilities (TICs) and their impacts on firm’s competitive performance in the field of manufacturing industries. This paper pursued Yam et al. (2004) framework to study the relevance of TICs and firm's competitive performance in a mainly-service-based industry in Iran (ICT). Empirical data were collected through a questionnaire from...

This paper probes two research questions by ascertaining the factors which distinguish (i) innovative SMEs from those which are not, and (ii) SMEs which experienced a higher sales growth from those which experienced a lower sales growth, with reference to 197 engineering industry SMEs in Bangalore city. The differentiating factors between innovative and non-innovative SMEs brought out that SMEs...

Although eco-innovation in the agri-food sector is receiving increasing attention, heterogeneity of firms operating encourages development specific sub-sectoral studies to define strategies. In this regard, main goal present study evaluate drivers olive oil production sector. Our empirical method relies on data from Spanish mills, and uses qualitative comparative analysis (QCA). The results sho...

The GVC approach has stressed that inter-firm linkages within GVCs can play a crucial role in transferring technological knowledge and promoting innovation. However, the exact nature of these GVC inter-firms relationships, and their impact on the learning and innovative processes of firms involved in such GVCs in developing countries is still controversial and rather understudied. In this paper...

Union rent-seeking is considered a tax on f irm returns f rom investments in innovative activity. We examine this proposition by considering the responses o f f irms in a 1985 survey on R&D and product innovation. Consistent with our model, we f ind that innovative activity is significantly less important for union than for similar nonunion firms. We conclude that innovative activity may be an ...

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The increase of strategic alliance and national or pan-national government collaborative programmes has highlighted the shifting management and policy focus from inducing inhouse R&D to promoting a joint partnership between firms and organisations in the increasingly complex and costly innovation process. Recent outputs from the dynamic capability school and innovation network theorists demonst...

Much like the popular myth that a bumblebee’s flight is aerodynamically impossible, experts often suggest that innovative entrepreneurship is economically impossible. Entrepreneurs must be irrationally optimistic because there are few economic returns to innovative entry. Entrepreneurs cannot innovate effectively because incumbent firms have better complementary assets. Entrepreneurs cannot pos...

The objective of this research is to identify the factors that are the drivers of innovation and to propose a means of measuring firm-specific innovation within a nation. Innovation leads to competitive advantages, as well as maximizing profits for a firm, so it is imperative that the firms have tools that measure how innovative they are compared to other firms within the same industry. The eme...