nep-ipr New Economics Papers
on Intellectual Property Rights
Issue of 2008‒09‒05
two papers chosen by
Roland Kirstein
Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg
  1. Is the R&D Behaviour of Fast Growing SMEs Different? Evidence from CIS III Data for 16 Countries By Werner Hölzl
  2. Emergent Innovation and Sustainable Knowledge Co-creation. A Socio-Epistemological Approach to “Innovation from within” By Peschl, Markus F.; Fundneider, Thomas
  1. By: Werner Hölzl (WIFO)
    Abstract: This paper studies the R&D behaviour of fast growing SMEs using CIS III data for 16 countries. We group the countries into three groups that roughly have the same position in technological development. The first finding is that R&D is more important to high growth SMEs in countries that are closer to the technological frontier. The second finding is that high growth SMEs are more innovative than non-high-growth SMEs only for countries close to the technological frontier. This suggests that gazelles derive much of their drive from the exploitation of comparative advantages. From a policy perspective this suggests that there are important limits to centralise policies that aim at fostering high growth SMEs.
    Keywords: R&D, high growth firms, Europe, CIS
    Date: 2008–08–21
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:wfo:wpaper:y:2008:i:327&r=ipr
  2. By: Peschl, Markus F.; Fundneider, Thomas
    Abstract: Innovation has become one of the most important issues in modern knowledge society. As opposed to radical innovation this paper introduces the concept of Emergent Innovation: this approach tries to balance and integrate the demand both for radically new knowledge and at the same time for an organic development from within the organization. From a more general perspective one can boil down this problem to the question of how to cope with the new and with profound change (in knowledge). This question will be dealt with in the first part of the paper. As an implication the alternative approach of Emergent Innovation will be presented in the second part: this approach looks at innovation as a socio-epistemological process of “learning from the future” in order to create (radically) new knowledge in a sustainable and “organic” manner. Implications for knowledge society will be discussed.
    Keywords: Knowledge society; (radical vs. incremental) innovation; emergent innovation; knowledge creation; change
    JEL: Q55 O32 D83 O31 O3
    Date: 2008–09
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:pra:mprapa:10215&r=ipr
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