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Innovation in R&D service firms: Evidence from the UK
- Source :
- Li, X, Gagliardi, D & Miles, I 2018, ' Innovation in R &D service firms: Evidence from the UK ', Technology Analysis and Strategic Management . https://doi.org/10.1080/09537325.2018.1549729
- Publication Year :
- 2018
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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.
Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Li, X, Gagliardi, D & Miles, I 2018, ' Innovation in R &D service firms: Evidence from the UK ', Technology Analysis and Strategic Management . https://doi.org/10.1080/09537325.2018.1549729
- Accession number :
- edsair.od......3818..61ca7770596c473c274521535fa1a143