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Vahter, Priit, Love, James H. and Roper, Stephen (2015) Openness and innovation performance : are small firms different? Industry and Innovation, 21 (7-8). pp. 553-573. doi:10.1080/13662716.2015.1012825 ISSN 1366-2716 .
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13662716.2015.1012825
Abstract
We explore whether and how the benefits of openness in innovation are different for small plants (less than 50 employees) compared to medium and large plants. Using panel data from Irish manufacturing we find that the contribution of the “breadth” of openness (i.e., the variety of plants' innovation linkages) on innovation performance is stronger for small plants than for larger plants. Both small and larger plants face diminishing returns as the breadth of openness increases, but small plants experience negative returns at lower level of the breadth of openness than larger plants. Our results suggest that small plants can gain significantly from using wider set of innovation linkages, but for such plants appropriate partner choice is a particularly important issue. Small plants also gain significantly more than larger ones from investing in the linkages within the supply chain.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28 Management. Industrial Management | ||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School > Entrepreneurship, Innovation & Management Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School > Strategy & International Business Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School |
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Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Small business -- Technological innovations, Technological innovations -- Small business, Technological innovations -- Economic aspects, Business networks, Technological innovations -- Management, Research, Industrial -- Management, Diffusion of innovations | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Industry and Innovation | ||||||
Publisher: | Routledge | ||||||
ISSN: | 1366-2716 | ||||||
Official Date: | 26 February 2015 | ||||||
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Volume: | 21 | ||||||
Number: | 7-8 | ||||||
Page Range: | pp. 553-573 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.1080/13662716.2015.1012825 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 18 December 2015 | ||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 26 August 2016 | ||||||
Funder: | Economic and Social Research Council (Great Britain) (ESRC), Minister of Education and Research (Estonia) | ||||||
Grant number: | RES-062-23-2767 , IUT 20–49 |
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