Innovation in emerging economies: How do university-industry linkages and public procurement matter for small businesses?
Innovation in emerging economies: How do university-industry linkages and public procurement matter for small businesses?
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DOI：
10.1007/s10490-021-09763-z
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发表时间：
2021-06
影响因子：
5.4
通讯作者：
Cornelia Storz;Tobias ten Brink;N. Zou
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作者：
Cornelia Storz;Tobias ten Brink;N. Zou
小企业在变得更具创新性方面面临着重大挑战。这些挑战在新兴经济体中尤为普遍，高度不确定性是创新的障碍。我们从以前的研究中了解到，一方面与大学建立联系，另一方面与公共采购建立联系，支持大型创新企业努力提高创新能力。然而，我们不知道这些积极的影响是否也适用于小企业。在本文中，我们关注的政策策略如何减少信息，市场和金融的不确定性塑造小企业的创新在中国。基于世界银行中国企业调查（2012年）中的926家小企业样本，我们发现大学与产业的联系促进了创新，但仅限于小规模的创新。与企业的资源基础观点一致，这种效应对于能力较高的小企业更强。此外，我们表明，投标或交付合同给公共部门的客户对创新，特别是主要形式的创新有积极的影响。在投标选择过程中，选择了私营公司和能力较高的公司。我们的研究结果表明，这两种政策策略都促进了创新，但对新奇程度的影响不同。我们将这一发现归因于它们所解决的不同程度的不确定性。
Small businesses face major challenges to becoming more innovative. These challenges are particularly prevalent in emerging economies where high uncertainties are a barrier to innovation. We know from previous studies that linkages to universities, on the one hand, and public procurement, on the other, support large and innovative firms in their efforts to become more innovative. However, we do not know whether these positive effects also hold true for small businesses. In this paper, we focus on how policy strategies reducing information, market and financial uncertainties shape small businesses’ innovation in China. Based on a sample of 926 small businesses derived from the World Bank Enterprises Survey in China (2012), we find that university-industry linkages enhance innovation, though only when it comes to minor forms of innovation. In line with the resource-based view of the firm, this effect is stronger for small businesses with higher capabilities. Moreover, we show that bidding for or delivering contracts to public sector clients has a positive effect on innovation, and in particular of major forms of innovation. In the bidding selection process, private firms and firms with higher capabilities are selected. Our findings show that both policy strategies have enhanced innovation, though with different effects on the degree of novelty. We attribute this finding to the different degrees of uncertainties they address.