Co-operative ties and innovation: Some new evidence for UK manufacturing

Philip Tomlinson ()

Research Policy, 2010, vol. 39, issue 6, 762-775

Abstract: Drawing upon survey data from 436 firms, this paper explores the impact of co-operative ties upon levels of innovation (both product and process) in five UK manufacturing industries. Unlike a number of previous studies in this area, the data itself captures both the scale and multi-dimensional nature of both co-operation and innovation. The paper finds evidence to support the hypothesis that vertical co-operative ties are a significant factor in explaining firms' levels of innovative performance. However, the empirical analysis suggests that it is the strength of such ties - and not just their existence - which are important with stronger dyadic relations between firms having a positive and significant impact upon levels of innovation. The analysis also finds that in some sectors, horizontal co-operative ties are (albeit to a lesser extent) also important.

Keywords: Innovation; Co-operation; Networks; Vertical; and; horizontal; ties; Dyadic; relations; Manufacturing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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