Innovation Interactions Between Knowledge-Intensive Business Services and Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises: An Analysis in Terms of Evolution, Knowl

ISBN-13: 9783790813623 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 198 str.

Emmanuel Muller; E. Muller

Opis

The book investigates the meaning, nature and consequences of innovation interactions between small and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises (SMEs) and knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS).
It focuses on the concept of a virtuous circle linking KIBS' and SMEs' innovation capacities in Germany and France. A particular emphasis is given to the question of the role and nature of the knowledge base of the firm in an evolutionary perspective. The integration of the spatial dimension strengthens the examination.
For this purpose, a new data analysis methodology has been developed. This methodology consists of a combination of complementary statistical procedures, which provides a tool allowing a reliable examination of the data collected. The samples considered in the analysis constitute a source of rich, complex, and diversified information.

Spis treści

Innovation as the expression of firms' evolution capacity: Innovation as an evolutionary process; Innovation as a knowledge-based process; Nature and forms of innovation: towards a continuum approach.- Interactions between KIBS and SMEs and impact on innovation capacities: Interactions: between market and hierarchy?; The impact of interactions with KIBS on SMEs; KIBS innovation capacity and the influence of interactions with SMEs.- Territorial determinants and evolution capacities of SMEs and KIBS: Proximity and innovation; Territory and innovation; The impact of territorial determinants on SMEs and KIBS interactions and evolution.- Operationalisation of the analysis: From the hypotheses to the key variables; Structure of the data; The statistical exploitation procedure.- Statistical exploitation of the SME sample: Segmentation procedures; Multiple correspondence analysis; Path modelling.- Statistical exploitation of the KIBS sample: Segmentation procedures; Multiple correspondence analysis; Path modelling.- Main findings and policy implications: Interpretation of the key findings; Towards an integrated typology of innovation interactions; Implications for policies.- General conclusion.- Appendix: Basic frequencies of the selected variables.- Selected bivariate tests.- PROBIT analysis.