Roper, S, Becker, B, Love, JH orcid.org/0000-0003-3478-685X et al. (1 more author) (2022) Firms’ innovation objectives and knowledge acquisition strategies. International Journal of Innovation Management, 26 (4). 2250025. ISSN 1363-9196
Abstract
External partnerships play an important role in firms’ acquisition of the knowledge inputs to innovation. Such knowledge acquisition may be interactive - involving exploration and mutual learning - or non-interactive - involving exploitative activity and learning by only one party. Here, we consider how firms’ innovation objectives influence their choice of interactive and/or non-interactive knowledge search. We conduct a comparative analysis for Spain and the UK, which have contrasting innovation eco-systems and regulation burdens. Three empirical results emerge. First, we find strong support for complementarity between non-interactive and interactive knowledge search. Second, we find that where firms have innovation objectives relating to product or service improvement, they are more likely to establish non-interactive search strategies. Third, the innovation objective of reducing environmental impact is significantly related to both, interactive and non-interactive knowledge acquisition strategies. This is likely related to the increasing awareness of the need to promote an agenda based on sustainable growth.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | This is protected by copyright. All rights reserved. This is an author produced version of an article published in International Journal of Innovation Management. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Innovation, interactive knowledge search, non-interactive knowledge search, imitation |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Business (Leeds) > International Business Division (LUBS) (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 25 May 2022 13:22 |
Last Modified: | 06 Jul 2023 00:13 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | World Scientific Publishing |
Identification Number: | 10.1142/S1363919622500256 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:187320 |