Persistence of various types of innovation analyzed and explained

• Autores: Sam Tavassoli, Charlie Karlsson
• Localización: Research Policy, ISSN-e 1873-7625, Vol. 44, Nº. 10, 2015, págs. 1887-1901
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This paper analyzes the persistency in innovation behavior of firms. Using five waves of the Community Innovation Survey in Sweden, we have traced the innovative behavior of firms over a ten-year period, i.e., between 2002 and 2012. We distinguish between four types of innovations: process, product, marketing, and organizational innovations. First, using transition probability matrix, we found evidence of (unconditional) state dependence in all types of innovation, with product innovators having the strongest persistent behavior. Second, using a dynamic probit model, we found evidence of “true” state dependency among all types of innovations, except marketing innovators. Once again, the strongest persistency was found for product innovators