Innovation in R&D service firms: evidence from the UK
Innovation in R&D service firms: evidence from the UK
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DOI：
10.1080/09537325.2018.1549729
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发表时间：
2019-06-03
影响因子：
3.4
通讯作者：
Miles, Ian
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作者：
Li, Xiuqin;Gagliardi, Dimitri;Miles, Ian
研发(R&D)服务公司对其他业务的创新做出了重大贡献。现有文献认为这些企业是知识密集型服务业企业的同质子群。这项研究的目的是调查研发服务企业如何创新以及这些企业内部创新实践的多样性。利用对32家英国研发服务公司高管的半结构化访谈数据，我们认为存在两种不同的创新模式：在第一种模式中，研发服务公司的创新类似于KIBS，其创新本质上是临时的，并由客户的要求驱动；另一组研发服务公司像基于新技术的公司(NTBF)一样创新，更多地依赖于结构化的内部研发活动。
Research and Development (R&D) service firms make significant contributions to innovation in other businesses. The extant literature considers these firms a homogenous sub-group of Knowledge Intensive Business Service firms (KIBS). The objective of this study is to investigate how R&D service firms innovate and the variety of innovation practices within these firms. Employing data from semi-structured interviews with senior managers from 32 UK-based R&D service firms, we suggest that there are two different modes of innovation: in the first mode, R&D service firms innovate similarly to KIBS whose innovation is ad-hoc in nature and driven by customers' requests; another group of R&D service firms innovate like New Technology-based Firms (NTBFs) relying more on structured in-house R&D activities.