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Innovation in R&D service firms: evidence from the UK.
- Source :
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Technology Analysis & Strategic Management . Jun2019, Vol. 31 Issue 6, p732-748. 17p. - Publication Year :
- 2019
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Abstract
- 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. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 09537325
- Volume :
- 31
- Issue :
- 6
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Technology Analysis & Strategic Management
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 135991604
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/09537325.2018.1549729