Dynamic complementarities in innovation strategies

• Autores: James H. Love, Stephen Roper, Priit Vahter
• Localización: Research Policy, ISSN-e 1873-7625, Vol. 43, Nº. 10, 2014, págs. 1774-1784
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Using a panel of Irish manufacturing plants over the period 1991�2008 we test for dynamic complementarities in the joint use of internal R&D and external knowledge sources. We find little evidence, either from considering successive cross-sectional waves of comparable surveys, or in terms of the strategy switch choices of specific plants, that there has been a systematic move towards the joint use of internal and external knowledge in innovation. We then test formally for the presence of complementarities in the joint use of internal R&D and external innovation linkages. In static terms we find no evidence of complementarity, but in dynamic terms find evidence that strategy switches by individual plants towards a more �open� strategy are accompanied by increased innovation outputs.