Dynamic complementarities in innovation strategies
James H. Love, Stephen Roper, Priit Vahter
Research Policy · 2014 · Volume 43 · Issue 10
DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2014.05.005
Abstract
Using a panel of Irish manufacturing plants over the period 1991–2008 we test for dynamic complementarities in the joint use of internal R&D and external knowledge sources. We find little evidence, either from considering successive cross-sectional waves of comparable surveys, or in terms of the strategy switch choices of specific plants, that there has been a systematic move towards the joint use of internal and external knowledge in innovation. We then test formally for the presence of complementarities in the joint use of internal R&D and external innovation linkages. In static terms we find no evidence of complementarity, but in dynamic terms find evidence that strategy switches by individual plants towards a more ‘open’ strategy are accompanied by increased innovation outputs.
Keywords
Open innovation, Innovation strategies, Ireland, Dynamic complementarities
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