Innovation in R&D service firms: evidence from the UK

被引：14
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作者：
Li, Xiuqin [1 ]
Gagliardi, Dimitri [1 ]
Miles, Ian [1 ,2 ]
机构：
[1] Univ Manchester, Alliance Manchester Business Sch, Manchester Inst Innovat Res, Manchester, Lancs, England
[2] Natl Res Univ Higher Sch Econ, 20 Myasnitskaya Ulitsa, Moscow 101000, Russia
来源：
TECHNOLOGY ANALYSIS & STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT | 2019年 / 31卷 / 06期
基金：
英国经济与社会研究理事会;
关键词：
R&D service firms; knowledge-intensive business services; new-technology based firms; innovation in services; INTENSIVE BUSINESS SERVICES; TECHNOLOGY-BASED FIRMS; SPIN-OFFS; KNOWLEDGE; GROWTH; SCIENCE; COMPETITIVENESS; MANAGEMENT; PATTERNS; VARIETY;
D O I：
10.1080/09537325.2018.1549729
中图分类号：
C93 [管理学];
学科分类号：
12 ; 1201 ; 1202 ; 120202 ;
摘要：
Research and Development (R&D) service firms make significant contributions to innovation in other businesses. The extant literature considers these firms a homogenous sub-group of Knowledge Intensive Business Service firms (KIBS). The objective of this study is to investigate how R&D service firms innovate and the variety of innovation practices within these firms. Employing data from semi-structured interviews with senior managers from 32 UK-based R&D service firms, we suggest that there are two different modes of innovation: in the first mode, R&D service firms innovate similarly to KIBS whose innovation is ad-hoc in nature and driven by customers' requests; another group of R&D service firms innovate like New Technology-based Firms (NTBFs) relying more on structured in-house R&D activities.
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页码：732 / 748
页数：17
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