Firms' skills as drivers of radical and incremental innovation

Justin Doran; Geraldine Ryan

doi:10.1016/j.econlet.2014.08.011

Firms' skills as drivers of radical and incremental innovation

Cork University Business School

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Abstract

Using firm level data from the Irish Community Innovation Survey 2008-2010 we analyse the importance of eight skill sets for the innovation performance of firms. We distinguish between radical and incremental innovation. Our results suggest that there is substantial heterogeneity in the importance of skills for different types of innovation and that some skills are best sourced from outside the firm while others are best developed in-house.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	107-109
Number of pages	3
Journal	Economics Letters
Volume	125
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2014.08.011
Publication status	Published - 1 Oct 2014

Keywords

In-house
Innovation
Multivariate probit
Outsource
Skills

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