Small Firms and Search Strategies to Access External Knowledge from Universities: An Empirical Approach in Low-Tech Firms

2012 ◽  
pp. 239-256
Author(s):  
Jose-Luis Hervas-Oliver ◽  
Joan-Josep Baixauli ◽  
Bernardo Perez
Keyword(s):  
Small Firms ◽  
Search Strategies ◽  
Empirical Approach ◽  
External Knowledge

Innovation type and external knowledge search strategies in KIBS: evidence from Canada

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 509-530 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Doloreux ◽  
Ekaterina Turkina ◽  
Ari Van Assche
Keyword(s):  
Search Strategies ◽  
External Knowledge ◽  
Knowledge Search ◽  
Innovation Type

scholarly journals The Effect of External Knowledge Sources on Organizational Innovation in Small and Medium Enterprises in Germany

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-79
Author(s):  
Shoaib Abdul Basit
Keyword(s):  
Private Sector ◽  
Small Firms ◽  
Organizational Innovation ◽  
Small And Medium Enterprises ◽  
Knowledge Sources ◽  
Community Innovation Survey ◽  
External Knowledge ◽  
Medium Enterprises ◽  
External Actors ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Background: Firms increasingly depend on external actors for the process of generating innovation. Interaction with these actors might occur through an official collaboration agreement or via external actors as the source of information. Objectives: Although open innovation has received more attention, still less is known about its effect on organizational innovation. To fill this gap, this study investigates the impact of various external knowledge sources on the willingness of small and mediumsized enterprises to introduce organizational innovation. Methods/Approach: To achieve the proposed objective, the German Community Innovation Survey conducted in 2017 is used for the econometric analysis. Results: Different external sources of knowledge are relevant for the introduction of organizational innovation in small firms (customers in the private sector, competitors, conferences, and crowdsourcing) compared to medium-sized firms (customers in the private sector and industry associations). Conclusions: External knowledge sources are more important for small firms compared to medium firms, and those small firms are more likely to use various sets of external knowledge.

External Knowledge Search Strategies in China's Technology Ventures: The Role of Managerial Interpretations and Ties

2013 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 437-463 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jingjiang Liu ◽  
Lu Chen ◽  
Wiboon Kittilaksanawong
Keyword(s):  
Positive Relationship ◽  
Emerging Market ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
Search Strategies ◽  
External Knowledge ◽  
Managerial Ties ◽  
Threat Rigidity ◽  
Knowledge Search ◽  
Technology Ventures

AbstractDrawing on the threat-rigidity hypothesis, we examine how managerial opportunity and threat interpretations of external environments affect a technology venture's choice of external knowledge search strategies in an emerging market. Results from a sample of 141 technology ventures in China reveal that opportunity interpretation directly and positively influences both the breadth and depth of external search, whereas threat interpretation directly and negatively influences only external search depth. Furthermore, managerial ties strengthen the positive relationship between opportunity interpretation and external search breadth but weaken the positive relationship on external search depth. Managerial ties weaken the negative relationship between threat interpretation and external search breadth but strengthen the negative relationship on external search depth. Implications for both research and practice are offered.

scholarly journals Incorporation of knowledge through acquisition in the pharmaceutical industry

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 ◽  
pp. e0200016
Author(s):  
Murilo Montanari Matos
Keyword(s):  
Pharmaceutical Industry ◽  
Qualitative Methods ◽  
Small Group ◽  
Small Firms ◽  
Knowledge Bases ◽  
Pharmaceutical Companies ◽  
Small Enterprises ◽  
Past Work ◽  
External Knowledge ◽  
Central Actions

This article focuses on the incorporation of knowledge conducted by large pharmaceutical corporations through the acquisition of small enterprises. The objective was to evidence to which degree the incorporation of knowledge is performed by a sample of 8 large pharmaceutical companies. In order to do this, we rely on qualitative methods, based on a sample of eight companies and 54 small enterprises they acquired in the period from 2005 to 2012. From the sample we compiled the patents granted to the small firms within the USPTO. The analysis conducted develops two central actions. The first is theinventor’s usage, defined as the small enterprises inventors, which when incorporated by large pharmaceutical corporations started to develop patents through the acquiring larger company. The second is the incorporation of research trajectories, which means how inventors cite their past work as they are incorporated into the larger companies. This article concludes that the incorporation of inventors is a relevant strategy among the large companies studied so that these companies can incorporate external knowledge bases from the acquired smaller enterprises; however, just a few inventors are incorporated, which shows that just a small group of people conducts innovative research for large companies. This article contribution was to categorically evidence the incorporation of knowledge through new metrics, being them: inventor’s usage and research trajectory incorporation.

EXPLORING OPEN SEARCH STRATEGIES AND THEIR PERCEIVED IMPACT ON INNOVATION PERFORMANCE—EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE

2011 ◽  
Vol 15 (03) ◽  
pp. 525-541 ◽  
Author(s):  
KAISA HENTTONEN ◽  
PAAVO RITALA ◽  
TIINA JAUHIAINEN
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Open Innovation ◽  
Search Strategies ◽  
Innovation Performance ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Innovative Performance ◽  
External Knowledge ◽  
Market Driven ◽  
Perceived Impact ◽  
The Relationship

Given Chesbrough's idea of open innovation, it could be said that external knowledge is an important element in the optimisation of in-house innovation. External knowledge is distributed among various actors and is accessible through many channels. However, we still do not know much about the search strategies that affect innovation performance. Our study therefore explores the relationship between open knowledge search strategies and company-level innovative performance. This study examines the open search strategies of 193 firms on the basis of cross-sectional data from Finnish markets. We identified four specific strategies, namely (1) market-driven, (2) science-driven, (3) intermediary-driven and (4) generic-knowledge-driven. According to the results, all except intermediary-driven strategies positively affect innovation performance.

SEARCH FAR AND DEEP: FOCUS OF OPEN SEARCH STRATEGY AS DRIVER OF FIRM'S INNOVATION PERFORMANCE

2013 ◽  
Vol 17 (03) ◽  
pp. 1340007 ◽  
Author(s):  
KAISA HENTTONEN ◽  
PAAVO RITALA
Keyword(s):  
Search Strategy ◽  
Search Strategies ◽  
Moderating Effect ◽  
Innovation Performance ◽  
Technological Capabilities ◽  
Knowledge Sources ◽  
Firm Level ◽  
External Knowledge ◽  
Deep Focus

The effects of open search strategies (i. e., search for firm-external knowledge) on firm-level innovation performance are still ambiguous in the existing literature. We introduce the concepts of focused search strategy and multi-focus search strategy as differentiating factors for a firm. The results of a cross-industrial survey from Finnish markets suggest that applying one focused search strategy intensively generally enhances the firm-level innovation performance. It also seems that emphasizing multiple search strategies intensively improves performance even more, and that the effect becomes stronger, the greater the number of knowledge sources used. Furthermore, the results show that firm-specific technological capabilities have a negative moderating effect in terms of highly focused search strategies, but this diminishes when the focus gets more diverse.

scholarly journals Ambidexterity in External Knowledge Search Strategies and Innovation Performance: Mediating Role of Balanced Innovation and Moderating Role of Absorptive Capacity

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (18) ◽  
pp. 5111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Choo Yeon Kim ◽  
Myung Sub Lim ◽  
Jae Wook Yoo
Keyword(s):  
Absorptive Capacity ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Search Strategies ◽  
Innovation Performance ◽  
External Knowledge ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Modes Of Innovation ◽  
Moderating Role ◽  
External Knowledge Acquisition

The importance of external knowledge acquisition for innovation by firms is well established. In particular, there has been an increasing focus on the two distinct modes of firms’ external search strategies, which have a differential effect on their learning and innovation: search breadth and depth. By applying organizational ambidexterity lens, we hypothesize that pursuing high levels of both external search strategies is beneficial to achieve a balance between exploitative and explorative innovation, which, in turn, has a positive impact on the firm’s innovation performance. We also hypothesize that, even among the firms that maintain high levels of both search strategies, firms with higher absorptive capacity better achieve a balance between both modes of innovation, thereby producing higher performance. The findings on a multi-industry sample of Koran manufacturing firms confirm our hypotheses and imply that it is essential for firms to develop capabilities for different modes of external search activities in conjunction with internal absorptive capacity for superior innovation performance.

Inovação e porte das empresas: evidências sobre a experiência internacional e brasileira

2012 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marisa Dos Reis Azevedo Botelho ◽  
Adriano Filipe da Silva Maia ◽  
Luciano Augusto Vega Pires
Keyword(s):  
Firm Size ◽  
Small Firms ◽  
Technology Innovation ◽  
Innovation Activity ◽  
Large Firms ◽  
Community Innovation Survey ◽  
External Knowledge ◽  
Almost All ◽  
The Relationship

O trabalho analisa a relação entre inovação e porte das empresas, com o objetivo de diferenciar a contribuição de grandes e pequenas empresas para a atividade de inovação. A análise é realizada através das características do esforço inovativo empreendido pelas empresas, obtido pela relação entre receita de vendas egastos em atividades inovativas. Primeiramente, analisam-se as evidências teóricas e empíricas sobre o tema, com ênfase na literatura que resgata as contribuições schumpeterianas e os testes de suas hipóteses principais. Na seqüência, são apresentados dados recentes sobre esforço inovativo, destacando as diferenças entre empresas de portes distintos, no tocante a gastos em P&D, aquisição externa de P&D, aquisição de outros conhecimentos externos e aquisição de máquinas e equipamentos. São utilizadas as bases de dados da CIS 6 (Community Innovation Survey, 2008) e da PINTEC 2005/2008 (Pesquisa de Inovação Tecnológica). A análise destes dados indica que o conjunto das pequenas empresas que inovaapresenta um esforço inovativo superior ao das empresas de grande porte na maior parte dos países analisados, o que destaca a importância destas empresas para a atividade de inovação.Abstract: The main purpose of this paper is to analyze the relationship between innovation and size of the firms, in order to show that the contributions of large and small firms to the innovation activity are distinct. This is done by means of the analysis of the innovative efforts features, which happens to be the ratio of innovations expenditures by sales. First of all, the main theoretical and empirical evidences concerning this subject are investigated, emphasizing the schumpeterian contributions and his assumptions tests. Next, recent data on innovative efforts are presented to highlight the distinctions between different sized firms, with respect to R&D expenditures, acquisition of external R&D, acquisition of other external knowledge and acquisition of machinery and equipment. We use the databasesCIS6 (Community Innovation Survey, 2008) and PINTEC 2005/2008 (Pesquisa de Inovação Tecnológica). The conclusion of this work is that innovative smallfirms present an innovative effort greater than large firms in almost all countries considered, a fact that remarks the relevance of small firms to innovation nowadays.Key-words: technology innovation; innovative effort; firm size; SMEs.JEL: L25; O30; O31.

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