Inter-organisational innovation processes in the European food and drink industry

Ana Isabel Almeida Costa, Marco Greco, Michele Grimaldi, Livio Cricelli and Vincenzo Corvello

International Journal of Management and Enterprise Development, 2016, vol. 15, issue 2/3, 191-208

Abstract: Although the food and drink (F%D) industry is Europe's largest manufacturing sector, few studies have explored its innovation activities so far. Starting from the widespread assumption that F%D manufacturers are supplier dominated 'à la Pavitt', we formulated hypotheses about their innovation activities. These were tested through Wilcoxon and Mann-Whitney tests on data drawn from a sample of 54,088 manufacturing firms (7,301 of which operating in the F%D industry) in 14 European countries, participating in Eurostat's 2008 Community Innovation Survey. The results confirm the supplier dominated nature of F%D firms, although also show that some largely anecdotal assumptions about the F%D industry's pattern of innovation cannot be empirically supported.

Keywords: capital goods investment; CIS; community innovation survey; external R%D; food and beverage industry; food and drink industry; innovation activities; internal R%D; open innovation; R%D intensity; supplier dominated; research and development; inter-organisational innovation; Europe. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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