Corradini, C., Battisti, Giuliana and Demirel, P. (2016) Serial innovators in the UK : does size matter? Industrial and Corporate Change, 25 (1). pp. 23-47. doi:10.1093/icc/dtu040

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Abstract

This article aims to shed light on the presence and importance of a significant number of small firms amongst serial innovators. Contrary to the common expectation in the innovative persistence literature, we posit that small serial innovators also benefit from operating within patterns of creative accumulation. However, it is in the quality of the technology and in the very nature of the knowledge accumulation process that the differences between small and large serial innovators can be found. Using a sample of 811 UK-based, highly innovative companies that patented over 66,000 inventions from 1990 to 2006, we find evidence in support of our theory. While large serial innovators experience higher innovation rates due to the scale of their innovation efforts, small serial innovators benefit more from processes of search depth characterized by the internal recombination of their previous knowledge. We find that important differences exist also in the very nature of the technologies being developed by small and large serial innovators.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Divisions:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School > Strategy & International Business Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School
Journal or Publication Title:	Industrial and Corporate Change
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
ISSN:	0960-6491
Official Date:	2016
Dates:	Date Event 2016 Published 8 February 2015 Available
Volume:	25
Number:	1
Page Range:	pp. 23-47
DOI:	10.1093/icc/dtu040
Status:	Peer Reviewed
Publication Status:	Published
Access rights to Published version:	Restricted or Subscription Access

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