Routinization of innovation in German manufacturing: the David-Goliath symbiosis revisited Export

@article{citeulike:4768661, abstract = {Small and medium-sized firms frequently are viewed as the drivers of radical innovation. However, they often do not have the focus and commitment necessary for improving and extending the innovation, tasks better accomplished by routinized large firms. Using a uniquely rich industry-level data set for German manufacturing industries during 1991-2004, this article finds evidence for this David-Goliath symbiosis. Although small and medium-sized firm innovation rates can explain the within-industry variation of productivity growth, it is the large firm process innovation rate that explains differences in the level of productivity growth between industries, i.e. differences in the degree of routinization of innovation. 10.1093/icc/dtn018}, author = {Falck, Oliver}, citeulike-article-id = {4768661}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/icc/dtn018}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://icc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/18/3/497}, doi = {10.1093/icc/dtn018}, journal = {Ind Corp Change}, keywords = {david-goliath, german, innovation, manufacturing, routinization, symbiosis}, month = {June}, number = {3}, pages = {497--506}, posted-at = {2009-06-07 08:45:04}, priority = {3}, title = {Routinization of innovation in German manufacturing: the David-Goliath symbiosis revisited}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/icc/dtn018}, volume = {18}, year = {2009} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:4768661 L3 - citeulike-article-id:4768661 N2 - Small and medium-sized firms frequently are viewed as the drivers of radical innovation. However, they often do not have the focus and commitment necessary for improving and extending the innovation, tasks better accomplished by routinized large firms. Using a uniquely rich industry-level data set for German manufacturing industries during 1991-2004, this article finds evidence for this David-Goliath symbiosis. Although small and medium-sized firm innovation rates can explain the within-industry variation of productivity growth, it is the large firm process innovation rate that explains differences in the level of productivity growth between industries, i.e. differences in the degree of routinization of innovation. 10.1093/icc/dtn018 IS - 3 JF - Ind Corp Change EP - 506 TI - Routinization of innovation in German manufacturing: the David-Goliath symbiosis revisited VL - 18 SP - 497 KW - david-goliath KW - german KW - innovation KW - manufacturing KW - routinization KW - symbiosis AU - Falck, Oliver PY - 2009/06/01/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/icc/dtn018 ER -