ABSTRACT

This study focuses on the collaboration patterns that small firms hold with other agents within liberal market economies and identifies the collaborative drivers that in this context deliver a superior impact on innovation output measured by product and process innovations. To explore this research question, the study combines the literature on innovation systems with a growing literature on business innovation modes that studies whether businesses are driven by science and technology factors (STI), or experience-based factors such as learning-by-doing, by-using and by-interacting (DUI). In the UK liberal market economy, universities and research centres are expected to play a critical role for innovation well beyond the typical impact they produce in coordinated market economies. This hypothesis is largely verified through our empirical evidence. Methodologically, this research is developed through the application of propensity score matching in the context of the UK longitudinal small business survey (LSBS) for 2015.

摘要

本研究侧重于自由市场经济中小公司与其他代理人的合作模式，并确定了在这种情况下对以产品和流程创新衡量的创新产出产生卓越影响的合作驱动因素。为了探索这个研究问题，该研究将创新系统的文献与越来越多的关于商业创新模式的文献结合起来，这些文献研究了企业是由科学和技术因素 (STI) 驱动，还是基于经验的因素，例如边做边学、通过使用和通过交互 (DUI)。在英国自由市场经济中，大学和研究中心有望在创新中发挥关键作用，远远超出它们在协调市场经济中产生的典型影响。这一假设在很大程度上通过我们的经验证据得到验证。