Knowledge Spillovers in the Supply Chain: Evidence from the High Tech Sectors
By Olov H. D. Isaksson, Markus Simeth, Ralf W. Seifert. 2015
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In addition to internal R&D, external knowledge is widely considered as an essential lever for innovative performance. This paper analyzes knowledge spillovers in supply chain networks. Specifically, we investigate how supplier innovation is impacted by buyer innovation. Financial accounting data is combined with supply chain relationship data and patent data for U.S. firms in high tech industries. Our econometric analysis shows that buyer innovation has a positive and significant impact on supplier innovation. We find that the duration of the buyer–supplier relationship positively moderates this effect, but that the technological proximity between the two firms does not have a significant effect on spillovers.
Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Strategy and Management
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Citations in the corpus
- Firms’ green R&D cooperation behaviour in a supply chain: Technological spillover, power and coordination (2019, background): “Technological spillover will have an impact on firms’ R&D investment decisions and their ability to share other firms’ innovations due to the spillover effect, which may damage firms’ enthusiasm for R&D investment (Isaksson et al., 2016; Xu et al., 2017).”
- The strength of long ties and the weakness of strong ties: Knowledge diffusion through supply chain networks (2016, background): “Isaksson et al. (2014) find evidence of a positive effect of buyers’ innovation on their suppliers’ innovation, using patent data for the US firms in the high technology sectors.”