Relations between technological and non-technological innovations in the service sector

Jennifer González-Blanco, José Luis Coca-Pérez and Manuel Guisado-González

The Service Industries Journal, 2019, vol. 39, issue 2, 134-153

Abstract: In the economic literature, there is a debate on whether technological and non-technological innovations share the same determinants. As a result of this debate, two opposing views have emerged: the distinctive view argues that the determinants of both technologies are different; on the contrary, the integrative view considers that both types of technologies share determinants. The main objective that we pursue in this study is to test which of the two views is prevalent in the service sector of the Spanish economy. Analyses were performed using data from Spanish Technological Innovation Panel for the period 2008–2012. To perform hypothesis tests, the approach of complementarity was used. Our findings indicate that neither of the two approaches has been fully accredited, although the distinctive view is more prevalent. However, this radiography of relations tells us that companies can achieve further increases in productivity if technological innovation and non-technological innovation are implemented simultaneously.

Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1080/02642069.2018.1474876

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