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DUI it yourself: Innovation and activities to promote learning by doing, using, and interacting within the firm

Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés, Silje Haus-Reve and Rune Fitjar
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Andrés Rodríguez-Pose

No 17657, CEPR Discussion Papers from C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers

Abstract: Implicitly or explicitly, much innovation policy treats investments in research and development (R&D) as the main input to innovation. A large body of literature in innovation studies has challenged this, highlighting the role of external sources of innovation and of innovation based on learning by doing, using and interacting (DUI). Nonetheless, there has been limited empirical research on how firm-internal activities to promote DUI affect innovation, and on how important such activities are relative to internal R&D and to external sources of knowledge. We also know little about how internal DUI activities interact with internal R&D and with external knowledge sourcing. We address these gaps using Norwegian Community Innovation Survey data from 2010. We find that internal DUI is an important driver of new-to-market product innovation. Further, the results show partial substitution effects between internal DUI and internal R&D, as well as between internal DUI and external DUI.

Keywords: Innovation; Firms (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O31 O32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022-11
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