Ebook: Innovation Interactions between Knowledge-Intensive Business Services and Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises: An Analysis in Terms of Evolution, Knowledge and Territories

The book investigates the meaning, nature and consequences of innovation interactions between small and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises (SMEs) and knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS).
It focuses on the concept of a virtuous circle linking KIBS' and SMEs' innovation capacities in Germany and France. A particular emphasis is given to the question of the role and nature of the knowledge base of the firm in an evolutionary perspective. The integration of the spatial dimension strengthens the examination.
For this purpose, a new data analysis methodology has been developed. This methodology consists of a combination of complementary statistical procedures, which provides a tool allowing a reliable examination of the data collected. The samples considered in the analysis constitute a source of rich, complex, and diversified information.

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The book investigates the meaning, nature and consequences of innovation interactions between small and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises (SMEs) and knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS).
It focuses on the concept of a virtuous circle linking KIBS' and SMEs' innovation capacities in Germany and France. A particular emphasis is given to the question of the role and nature of the knowledge base of the firm in an evolutionary perspective. The integration of the spatial dimension strengthens the examination.
For this purpose, a new data analysis methodology has been developed. This methodology consists of a combination of complementary statistical procedures, which provides a tool allowing a reliable examination of the data collected. The samples considered in the analysis constitute a source of rich, complex, and diversified information.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages I-XVII
General introduction....Pages 1-3
Innovation as the expression of firms’ evolution capacity....Pages 5-25
Interactions between KIBS and SMEs and impact on innovation capacities....Pages 27-47
Territorial determinants and evolution capacities of SMEs and KIBS....Pages 49-66
Operationalisation of the analysis....Pages 67-88
Statistical exploitation of the SME sample....Pages 89-105
Statistical exploitation of the KIBS sample....Pages 107-123
Main findings and policy implications....Pages 125-148
Back Matter....Pages 149-198

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The book investigates the meaning, nature and consequences of innovation interactions between small and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises (SMEs) and knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS).
It focuses on the concept of a virtuous circle linking KIBS' and SMEs' innovation capacities in Germany and France. A particular emphasis is given to the question of the role and nature of the knowledge base of the firm in an evolutionary perspective. The integration of the spatial dimension strengthens the examination.
For this purpose, a new data analysis methodology has been developed. This methodology consists of a combination of complementary statistical procedures, which provides a tool allowing a reliable examination of the data collected. The samples considered in the analysis constitute a source of rich, complex, and diversified information.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages I-XVII
General introduction....Pages 1-3
Innovation as the expression of firms’ evolution capacity....Pages 5-25
Interactions between KIBS and SMEs and impact on innovation capacities....Pages 27-47
Territorial determinants and evolution capacities of SMEs and KIBS....Pages 49-66
Operationalisation of the analysis....Pages 67-88
Statistical exploitation of the SME sample....Pages 89-105
Statistical exploitation of the KIBS sample....Pages 107-123
Main findings and policy implications....Pages 125-148
Back Matter....Pages 149-198
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