2021/40 | LEM Working Paper Series | ||||||||||||||||
Innovation pattern heterogeneity: A data-driven retrieval of the firms’ approaches to innovation |
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Marco Capasso and Marina Rybalka |
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Technological change; Innovation survey; Factor analysis; Business strategies; Intra-industry
heterogeneity.
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O31, O32, O33
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Abstract | |||||||||||||||||
Innovation is one of the usual suspects in defining differences in performance among firms, according
to a strong and diverse theoretical framework. Understanding the diversity that exists within the
population of innovative firms is essential to elaborate appropriate innovation policies. Our study
explores the diversity of innovation patterns among Norwegian firms included in the 2018 Community
innovation survey (CIS2018). By applying factor analysis on a wide array of survey variables and on a
large sample of firms, we identify eleven typical approaches to innovation, which recurrently connect
innovation inputs and outputs at firm level. A main outcome of our study is a renewed fine-grained
view on innovation as a multifaceted concept.
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