کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
896512 1472412 2014 16 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Learning through experience in Research & Development: An empirical analysis with Spanish firms
ترجمه فارسی عنوان
یادگیری از طریق تجربه تحقیق و توسعه: یک تحلیل تجربی با شرکت های اسپانیایی
کلمات کلیدی
تجربه تحقیق و توسعه، یادگیری، نوآوری محصول، تعداد داده ها، بهره وری کل عوامل و فروش
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم انسانی و اجتماعی مدیریت، کسب و کار و حسابداری کسب و کار و مدیریت بین المللی
چکیده انگلیسی


• We analyse the role of learning in firms¹ R&D activities.
• We estimate an innovation production function using count-data econometrics.
• We find that R&D experience affects positively the expected number of innovations.
• The impact of innovations on firms¹ performance increases with R&D experience
• R&D experience helps firms to obtain more innovations and of a higher quality.

In this paper we analyse the role of learning through experience in Research and Development (R&D) activities in strengthening firms' capabilities to achieve innovation outcomes and, subsequently, in obtaining rewards in terms of firms' performance. First, using an innovation production function approach, we estimate a count-data model and find that the number of years of engagement in R&D activities, or R&D experience, has a positive effect on the expected number of product innovations, although at a decreasing rate. In addition, our results suggest that, whereas large firms are more efficient than SMEs in converting R&D investment into product innovations, SMEs seem to be able to draw efficiency gains from R&D experience at least comparable, if not higher, to those obtained by large firms. Secondly, we find that not only the number of innovations but also their impact on firms' performance increase as firms accumulate R&D experience, suggesting that R&D experience helps to obtain not only more innovations but also innovations of a higher quality.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Technological Forecasting and Social Change - Volume 88, October 2014, Pages 290–305
نویسندگان
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