Knowledge Creation and Innovative Behavior in Industry 4.0

Despite the importance of innovation and innovativeness within today’s economy, we know little about how intellectual capital of firms can contribute to a superior innovation at the firm’s level. Based on resources and knowledge-based views of firms we developed a hypothesis linking three dimensions of human capital (component of the intellectual capital) and the innovativeness of firms. As a representation of the firm’s innovativeness, we consider the product, process and management innovation. Using a survey from 68 firms working on the auto components sector, established in the Northern of Spain and Northern of Portugal, we found firstly, that innovativeness has two main dimensions, perfectly differentiated, the product-process innovation and the management innovation; secondly that the human capital dimensions (formation and knowledge creation, innovative behave, and incentives to innovation) influences differently each type of innovativeness capacity. We found that the different human capital dimension influences directly, only, the product-process innovativeness. More specifically only the innovative behavior and the incentives to innovation influence the product-process innovativeness. The formation and knowledge creation dimension doesn’t influence directly either the product-process innovativeness or the management innovativeness. Moreover, none of the human capital dimensions considered influence the management innovativeness directly. These results highlight the importance of human capital on innovative performance, and it allows identification of the most important dimensions that influence directly the different innovativeness capacities and more broadly, highlight the value of intellectual capital as a competitive advantage in contemporary times.

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The Role of Structural Empowerment and Innovative Behavior in Defining Business Process Innovation and Competitive Advantage to Cope with Industry 4.0

Proceedings of the International Conference on Business and Management Research (ICBMR 2020) ◽

10.2991/aebmr.k.201222.033 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Alphasius Omega Dixon ◽

Elok Savitri Pusparini

Keyword(s):

Competitive Advantage ◽

Business Process ◽

Industry 4.0 ◽

Process Innovation ◽

Innovative Behavior ◽

Structural Empowerment

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KNOWLEDGE CREATION AND INNOVATIVE BEHAVIOR

The International Journal of Business Review (The Jobs Review) ◽

10.17509/tjr.v1i2.14529 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 1 (2) ◽

pp. 119-128

Author(s):

Yana Setiawan ◽

Tjutju Yuniarsih ◽

Suwatno Suwatno ◽

Eeng Ahman

Keyword(s):

Human Resource ◽

Knowledge Creation ◽

Structural Equation ◽

Employee Performance ◽

Equation Modeling ◽

Corporate Management ◽

Innovative Behavior ◽

Analysis Technique ◽

Research Population ◽

Descriptive Survey

The current business development is entering the industry era 4.0. To anticipate the development of the industry era 4.0, employee performance aspect in human resource management becomes very important. Problems in this research is the low innovative behavior of employees described by the phenomenon of decline and increase performance of employee performance PT. Perkebunan Nusantara VIII (PTPN VIII) in Industrial era 4.0 in Indonesia. If the human resource problem is not addressed immediately, it will have an impact on the achievement of corporate management objectives which in turn also affect the performance, productivity, competitiveness and sustainability of the company. The purpose of this study is to describe and analyze employee perceptions on (1) the effectiveness of knowledge creation and the level of innovative behavior (2) Effect of the effectiveness of knowledge creation on the level of innovative behavior. The research method used a quantitative approach that is descriptive and verification through descriptive survey and explanatory survey. Respondents and research population are employees of PTPN VIII as many as 3999 people, with sample size of 364 people. The data analysis technique used Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) with SPSS and AMOS 24 software tools. The findings of the research show that (1) Knowledge creation is in effective category and innovative behavior is in high category. (2) Knowledge creation has a positive and significant effect on innovative behavior

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THE IMPACT OF TECHNOLOGIES OF THE INDUSTRY 4.0 ON INCREASE OF PRODUCTIVITY AND TRANSFORMATION OF INNOVATIVE BEHAVIOR OF THE INDUSTRIAL COMPANIES

Strategic decisions and risk management ◽

10.17747/2618-947x-2020-2-132-149 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 11 (2) ◽

pp. 132-149

Author(s):

A. V. Trachuk ◽

N. V. Linder

Keyword(s):

Industry 4.0 ◽

Industrial Revolution ◽

New Technologies ◽

Critical Mass ◽

Innovative Activity ◽

High Tech ◽

Innovative Behavior ◽

Fourth Industrial Revolution ◽

Industrial Companies ◽

The Impact

Paper is devoted to interrelation research between investments in technology of the fourth industrial revolution, patterns of innovative behavior and productivity of the Russian industrial companies. Research is conducted on the basis of data of 576 industrial companies (874 respondents).At the first investigation phase it is confirmed that technologies of the industry have the greatest impact on increase of productivity and transformation of industrial production 4.0: robotics, Internet of things, additive production, big data and analytics, cybersecurity. Besides, effects of introduction of technologies of the fourth industrial revolution are defined: financial, valuable, operational, innovative and technological development.At the second investigation phase the interrelation analysis between investments is carried out to technologies of the industry 4.0, patterns of innovative behavior and productivity of the industrial companies with use of the modified CDM model. The received empirical results have shown that investments of the industrial companies in technology of the fourth industrial revolution increase productivity with elasticity 0,28 for high-tech industries; 0,21 – for the middle-technology, and 0,14 – for low-technology.Investments in innovative activity have elasticity range from 0,04 (for low volumes of investments in new technologies) to 0,17 (at the high volumes of investments); the relations between investments in an innovation and growth of productivity aren't linear and have stable positive relation only after a certain critical mass of investments in new technologies is reached. Considerable influence on interrelation of investments in innovations and productivity is rendered by the characteristic of branch in which the company works: the firms working in high-tech industries, not only put in new technologies, innovative activity more, but also have more high efficiency caused by scientific researches and development; the companies of low-technology branches have negative elasticity of investments in innovations and productivity that is connected with influence of effect of unprofitability of investments into innovations (appropriability effect), that is the additional profit on investment isn't essential.

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