Singapurs Weg in die Wissensökonomie

2006 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthias Kiese
Keyword(s):  
Policy Recommendations ◽  
Business Services ◽  
Knowledge Intensive Business Services ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Innovation Surveys ◽  
Knowledge Based Economy ◽  
Knowledge Intensive ◽  
City State ◽  
The City

Singapore’s road to a knowledge-based economy. The role of knowledge-intensive business services in the national system of innovation. In 1998, Singapore’s government announced its vision to transform the city state into a knowledge-based economy (KBE) through a gradual shift from value adding to value creation. As both users and producers of knowledge, knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) are commonly seen as a cornerstone of the KBE. After assessing the development, size and structure of Singapore’s KIBS sector, we use data from innovation surveys of manufacturing and KIBS firms to assess the latter’s dual role as innovators and bridges for innovation. Our results allow us to point out policy recommendations and sketch possible avenues for further research.

scholarly journals KNOWLEDGE INTENSIVE BUSINESS SERVICES AND THEIR ECONOMIC ROLE IN EUROPEAN UNION: A BRIEF ANALYSIS

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 72-85
Author(s):  
Daniel Badulescu ◽  
Alina Badulescu ◽  
Sebastian Sipos-Gug ◽  
Anamaria Diana Herte ◽  
Darie Gavrilut
Keyword(s):  
Economic Activity ◽  
Manufacturing Sector ◽  
Decisive Role ◽  
Business Services ◽  
Economic Role ◽  
Knowledge Intensive Business Services ◽  
Complex Relation ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Knowledge Based Economy ◽  
Knowledge Intensive

The decisive role of the knowledge-based economy, and the importance of the ventures fostering the use of innovation and incorporating knowledge, high technology and creativity are nowadays worldwide recognised, even more so considering that the EU is in a permanent search for innovation as a source of and for competitiveness. Knowledge Intensive Business Services (KIBS) are expected to play a key role in the knowledge-based economy as a source of innovation and knowledge in production, dynamic hubs in knowledge-related networks, or intermediaries of innovation between the manufacturing sector and suppliers, partners and final consumers. Within this context, in the present paper we aim to investigate the complex relation between the knowledge intensive business services (KIBS) and the imperative of fostering the economic activity, both of the entrepreneurial dynamics and their macroeconomic effects. The analysis, performed at EU level, leads to interesting results, revealing a complex but contradictory relation between KIBS and economic activity, which is measured by the following main indicators: entrepreneurial density and macroeconomic dynamics.

scholarly journals KNOWLEDGE-INTENSIVE BUSINESS SERVICES AS IMPORTANT SERVICES FOR INNOVATION AND ECONOMIC GROWTH IN SLOVAKIA

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 042-047 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tatiana Čorejová ◽  
Mario Al Kassiri
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Transfer Of Knowledge ◽  
Highly Qualified ◽  
Business Services ◽  
Knowledge Intensive Business Services ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Knowledge Based Economy ◽  
Knowledge Intensive ◽  
The Impact

This paper illustrates the importance of Knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) as a source of innovation and economic growth. In the article, we explain the impact of KIBS on innovation, the importance of KIBS as a support in economic growth, its positive impact on employment and important role in the knowledge-based economy of Slovakia. This paper shows KIBS as important for innovation processes provided by institutions, such as universities, where the most important part involves research and development. Low support in services such as KIBS may cause decreases in availability of highly qualified employees and output of knowledge for innovation. Productivity and economic growth are largely dependent on fast growing technological progress and transfer of knowledge. Innovation can lead to a reduction in manual workers on one hand, while on the other  qualified employees will be needed for processes in the new applied technology. In order to fully understand the rapid growth of innovation and KIBS, we analyzed the correlation and number of scientists of its population in the EU countries.

scholarly journals Do SME’s innovation strategies influence their effectiveness of innovation? Some evidence from the case of Podkarpackie as peripheral region in Poland

Equilibrium ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 521-536 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Lewandowska ◽  
Mateusz Stopa
Keyword(s):  
Value Added ◽  
Peripheral Region ◽  
Chi Square ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Innovation Activities ◽  
Innovation Surveys ◽  
Knowledge Based Economy ◽  
Innovation Strategies ◽  
Joint Examination

Research background: Innovation is a very important pillar within a knowledge-based economy, in the regional and local perspective as well. A literature review on innovation and SME innovation strategies to their correlation and the possibility of their joint examination. Purpose of the article: The aim of this paper is to explore the SME’s innovation strategies and their impact on effectiveness of innovation in a peripheral region. We investigate the effects of innovation activities not only among small and medium, but also micro firms which are not covered in official innovation surveys by the national statistical offices. We proposed a model of implementing innovation, and tested our hypotheses. Methods: Research was based on data drawn from CATIs carried out among 419 firms, therefore making a conceptual contribution to the knowledge on innovation strategy. The main statistical test for relationships and dependencies was the chi-square independence test. To arbitrate whether there were statistically significant differences between medians due to different factors among enterprises, analysis for variance (H Kruskal-Wallis’ test for k independent samples) procedure was implemented. Findings & Value added: The results of our research show that among SMEs in peripheral regions dominated those which we call ‘pragmatists’ and ‘imitators’ in context of their approach towards innovation. The significance of objective factors showed that there was a lack of enterprises that could play the role of ‘creators of innovation’ in the peripheral region. However, the examined firms more often noticed positive than negative aspects of introduced innovations, which is determined by the scale of enterprise; they were focused mainly on the consequences of innovation for their products and services.

scholarly journals Does distance really matters? Assessing the role of KIBS proximity in firm´'s servitization capacity: evidence from the Basque Country

2020 ◽  
Vol 48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Opazo-Basáez ◽  
Lorea Narvaiza Cantín ◽  
Jose Antonio Campos
Keyword(s):  
Basque Country ◽  
Geographical Distance ◽  
Manufacturing Companies ◽  
Business Services ◽  
Knowledge Intensive Business Services ◽  
Service Deployment ◽  
Provision Of Services ◽  
Knowledge Intensive ◽  
Depth Interviews

Servitization strategy is increasingly recognized as a key source of value with important competitive and economic potential across the globe. Over the years, it has been proven to contribute to territorial performance through the provision of services to manufacturing businesses. Such contribution, however, has been to a large extent consequential to the configuration of local industrial structures, and most importantly, by interconnectedness between manufacturing firms and knowledge intensive business services (KIBS) firms. Hence, the process of territorial servitization is highly conditioned to the association between manufacturing businesses and KIBS firms. To date, territorial servitization literature mostly describes the implications of KIBS firms for service deployment and service innovation in manufacturing, considering knowledge and technological capabilities as main variables for its success. Nevertheless, the literature is silent on how geographical distance between KIBS firms and manufacturing companies may affect servitization capacity. Therefore, this research attempts to disclose the importance of geographical distance of KIBS firms in manufacturers´ servitization capacity. In doing so, we analyze two manufacturing companies; Alpha and Beta, both located in the Basque country but collaborating with KIBS firms in different geographical areas, “inside” and “outside” the Basque region. Through a qualitative study based on (1) measuring firm’s capacity for servitization, and (2) in-depth interviews, results suggest that geographical distance in terms of proximity plays a key role on the KIBS-Manufacturer relationship for servitization capacity, and require to be considered as an important aspect for successful territorial servitization.

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