دانلود رایگان مقاله اثرات موانع بر الگوهای نوآوری در شرکت های KIBS

abstract

Factors that impede the innovation propensity of manufacturing firms have been under-studied and underdocumented. Obstacles to innovation in KIBS firms are literally not documented at all. Based on a sample of Canadian KIBS firms, this study argues that in KIBS firms, the propensity to innovate should take into account not only product and process innovations, but also other forms of innovation (delivery, strategic, managerial, and marketing). Furthermore, we argue that different obstacles will affect different forms of innovation. The results show that, overall, financial obstacles are negatively related to product and process innovations, and that knowledge obstacles tend to be negatively associated with delivery, strategic, managerial, and marketing innovations. These results carry important managerial implications. Hence, managers of KIBS firms might benefit from remembering that a failure to recognize the differences between KIBS firms and manufacturing firms could lead to an inefficient allocation of the resources invested in innovation activities.

4. Discussion and conclusion

The results of this study show that KIBS firms engage in different forms of innovation and that the obstacles encountered by KIBS firms vary from one form of innovation to another. First, we showed that KIBS firms very actively engage both in technological (product and process innovations) and non-technological forms of innovation (delivery, strategic, managerial, and marketing innovations). Second, the results of this study reveal that, overall, financial obstacles are negatively related to product and process innovations, and the knowledge obstacles tend to be negatively associated with delivery, strategic, managerial, and marketing innovations. Finally, the results regarding the marginal impact of the factors that were statistically significantly related to innovation indicate, overall, that the marginal impacts of the knowledge obstacles on delivery, strategic, managerial, and marketing innovations are comparable or higher than the marginal impacts of the financial obstacles on product and process innovations.