عنوان

Innovation Interactions between Knowledge-Intensive Business Services and Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises :

3642575684

9783642575686

b570739

Innovation Interactions between Knowledge-Intensive Business Services and Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises :

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an Analysis in Terms of Evolution, Knowledge and Territories

by Emmanuel Muller.

Heidelberg

Physica-Verlag HD : Imprint : Physica

2001

(xvii, 198 pages 42 illustrations)

Technology, Innovation and Policy, Series of the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research (ISI), 11.

Innovation as the expression of firms' evolution capacity --; Interactions between KIBS and SMEs and impact on innovation capacities --; Territorial determinants and evolution capacities of SMEs and KIBS --; Operationalisation of the analysis --; Statistical exploitation of the SME sample --; Statistical exploitation of the KIBS sample --; Main findings and policy implications --; General conclusion. Appendix: Basic frequencies of the selected variables; Selected bivariate tests; PROBIT analysis.

The book investigates the meaning, nature and consequences of innovation interactions between small and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises (SMEs) and knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS). It focuses on the concept of a virtuous circle linking KIBS' and SMEs' innovation capacities in Germany and France. A particular emphasis is given to the question of the role and nature of the knowledge base of the firm in an evolutionary perspective. The integration of the spatial dimension strengthens the examination. For this purpose, a new data analysis methodology has been developed. This methodology consists of a combination of complementary statistical procedures, which provides a tool allowing a reliable examination of the data collected. The samples considered in the analysis constitute a source of rich, complex, and diversified information.

Economics.

by Emmanuel Muller.

Emmanuel Muller

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