Modeling technological innovation performance and its determinants: An aspect of buyer–seller social capital

2013 ◽  
Vol 80 (6) ◽  
pp. 1211-1221 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuan-Hui Tsai ◽  
Sheng-Wuu Joe ◽  
Cherng G. Ding ◽  
Chieh-Peng Lin
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Technological Innovation ◽  
Innovation Performance

The impact of intellectual capital and knowledge flows on incremental and radical innovation

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (2/3) ◽  
pp. 149-170 ◽  
Author(s):  
Duy Quoc Nguyen
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Human Capital ◽  
Intellectual Capital ◽  
Radical Innovation ◽  
Knowledge Flows ◽  
Innovation Performance ◽  
Incremental Innovation ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Radical Innovations ◽  
The Impact

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to develop a theoretical and empirical exploration of link between organization intellectual capital and knowledge flows with its incremental and radical innovation performance.Design/methodology/approachThis paper adopts relevant literature of social capital and organizational learning to examine the impact of intellectual capital and knowledge flows on incremental and radical innovation based on surveying 95 firms. To test the research hypotheses, regression analysis is used.FindingsResults of the study show that human capital and top-down knowledge flows significantly and positively influence both incremental and radical innovations. Social capital and bottom-up knowledge flows do not have any significant impact on incremental or/and radical innovation. Organizational capital has a positive impact on incremental innovation as expected.Practical implicationsThe results offer several practical implications for business managers to harvest its knowledge bases resident in the firm’s different forms appropriately to make innovation successful. Particularly, knowledge resident in human capital and organizational capital is useful for making incremental innovation. Especially, new knowledge, new skills and new perspectives resident in human capital are crucial important for making radical innovation. Both incremental and radical innovations are positively influenced by dynamic managerial capabilities.Originality/valueThis study contributes to literature by providing new evidence linking organization intellectual capital and knowledge flows with its innovation performance. Especially, the missing link between top-down knowledge flows and radical innovation is empirically examined. Value of this study is that social capital and bottom-up knowledge flows are not universally beneficial for enhancing innovation and their impacts on innovation performance are context dependent and more sophisticated than it is recognized in the literature.

scholarly journals Effects of innovation and social capital on economic growth: empirical evidence for the brazilian case

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-58
Author(s):  
João Gabriel Pio
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Technological Innovation ◽  
Economic Performance ◽  
Federal District ◽  
Collaboration Networks ◽  
Dynamic Panel ◽  
Increase Productivity ◽  
Main Input ◽  
Positive Effect ◽  
Main Factor

Technological innovation is an important mechanism for increasing productivity that provides growth and economic development to countries and regions. Recognized its effect, incentives for innovation and Research and Development (RD) expenditures, the main input for innovation, were intensified in the first decade of the 2000s in Brazil, through laws and programs directed to specific sectors such as: the Innovation Law (2004) and Lei do Bem (2005), both with the aim of stimulating RD. Therefore, the present work makes use of a model that incorporates the innovation, aiming to evaluate its effects on the GDP. Given the importance of cooperations and collaboration networks to increase productivity, in a complementary way, the effects of social capital on Brazilian economic performance are analyzed. With a database composed of 297 observations analyzed between 2000 and 2010 for each federation unit, including the Federal District, this work uses the traditional panel data and dynamic panel method to measure the increase in the state GDP that these variables provided in the period. The results found point to a significant and positive effect of social capital and to non-significance of innovation. In addition, as evidenced by the literature, human capital is the main factor of increase of the Brazilian product.

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