Joint UNU-MERIT/Maastricht School of Governance Seminar: “Industry- and Firm-specific Factors of Innovation Novelty”
In this seminar, Prof. Ana Paula Faria (University of Minho) will discuss a paper which investigates the underlying factors that might shape a firm’s choices with respect to degrees of innovation novelty.
Using a sample of 2,983 firms observed under the Portuguese Community Innovation Survey, the syudy assessed the relative relevance of a set of firm- and industry-specific factors in explaining firms’ choices about incremental or radical innovation. The results indicate that both the firm’s idiosyncratic historical factors giving rise to heterogeneous R&D capabilities and the industry context have power to shape the firm’s innovation choices, even though firm-specific factors appear to be more powerful.
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Ana Paula Faria is Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics, School of Economics and Management, University of Minho (Braga, Portugal). She holds a PhD in Economics from The University of Nottingham (UK), She has published articles on the economics of technical change and productivity in a variety of journals.