Determinants of innovation performance of Portuguese companies: an econometric analysis by type of innovation and sector with a particular focus on Services

Lilian Santos () and Aurora Teixeira ()
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Lilian Santos: Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto

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Abstract: The acknowledged importance of innovation and the increasingly decisive role played by the service sector make innovation an issue of major relevance to the economy. Using a sample of 6593 companies that answered the Community Innovation Survey 2008, we assessed the determinants of innovation of Portuguese companies by comparing the service sector and other sectors of activity (specifically, manufacturing industry, utilities and construction). Among the main results obtained, we highlighted: 1) the non-linear impact of human capital on the innovation performance of companies – Master degree emerges as a critical factor in corporate innovation, whereas the PhD level is negatively related to companies innovation performance; 2) knowledge-sourcing activities (systematic R&D achievements, innovation-based training, purchase of machinery and equipment for innovation) appear as central to firms’ innovation process; 3) although university-company relationships are weak and have a neglible impact on the generality of companies’ propensity to innovate, they tend to be rather important for the innovation performance of services companies; 4) participation in innovation activities in cooperation with foreign partners appears as a key factor in the innovative performance; 5) companies in the service sector in general, and in Knowledge-Intensive Business Services in particular, that effectively and continuously invest in R&D activities are most innovative.

Keywords: Innovation performance; Services; Types of innovations; Innovation determinants; Portugal (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L25 L80 O31 O32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 46 pages
Date: 2013-05
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