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Title: | The effects of inter-industry and country difference in supplier relationships on pioneering innovations | Authors: | LI, Ying VANHAVERBEKE, Wim |
Issue Date: | 2009 | Publisher: | ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV | Source: | TECHNOVATION, 29(12). p. 843-858 | Abstract: | Innovations are critical driving forces for firms to engage in corporate growth and new business development. Innovating firms are increasingly generating new knowledge in collaboration with partners. In this paper, we analyze how the knowledge differences between the innovating firms and their suppliers in Canada are likely to result in pioneering innovations. The knowledge difference is decomposed into two dimensions: the inter-industrial dimension and the geographic dimension in national context. Using the Canadian Innovation database, we found the inter-industry difference has a positive effect and the country difference has a negative effect on the likelihood of generating pioneering innovation. The findings of this paper suggest that for generating pioneering innovation, it is important not only to search for suppliers from different industries to get access to various complementary external knowledge sources but also to find suppliers from the same or nearby countries for the sake of communication and coordination. (C) 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. | Notes: | [Li, Ying] Tech Univ Denmark, Execut Sch Business, DK-2800 Lyngby, Denmark. [Vanhaverbeke, Wim] Hasselt Univ, Fac Appl Econ, BE-3500 Diepenbeek, Belgium. | Keywords: | Pioneering innovation; Knowledge difference; Inter-industry difference; Country difference; Supplier relationships; Cognitive distance; Exploration | Document URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1942/10294 | ISSN: | 0166-4972 | e-ISSN: | 1879-2383 | DOI: | 10.1016/j.technovation.2009.08.001 | ISI #: | 000271713400005 | Category: | A1 | Type: | Journal Contribution | Validations: | ecoom 2010 |
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