Cox, Howard, Frenz, Marion and Prevezer, Martha (2002) Patterns of Innovation in UK Industry: Exploring the CIS Data to Contrast High and Low Technology Industries. Journal of Interdisciplinary Economics, 13 (1, 2,). pp. 267-304. ISSN 0260-1079
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Abstract
This paper is divided into two parts. The first part is an examination of the OECD classification of industries into high, medium and low technology industries, to look at the basis for this classification and to use that as a benchmark with which to classify the Community Innovation Survey (CIS) data for the UK into similar groupings. The industries are ranked according to their research intensities and the rankings between the two datasets are compared. Some features of the UK rankings are highlighted and anomalies between the two datasets pointed out. The second part of the paper goes on to use the OECD classification into high, medium and low technology industries, applied to the CIS dataset, to contrast patterns of innovation in high technology industries with those in low technology industries. We build on the three types of innovation surveyed in the CIS, namely product, process and organisational innovation and contrast those types across high and low technology sectors. The expected relationship between high technology industries and product innovation holds - that enterprises tend to do more product innovation, the higher their research intensity. But process innovation does not conform to this pattern and there is not such a clear division between high and low technology industries. However the way they do process innovations differs with high technology industries more reliant on internal resources whereas lower technology industries tend to do it using external resources in collaboration with others. Organisational innovation is more complex, with certain types of innovation done as widely by lower technology industries as by the more research intensive industries. This supports the idea that all types of innovation should be considered, with the diffusion of ICTs making an impact across the technological spectrum of industries and showing up in various forms of organisational innovation.
Item Type: | Article |
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Additional Information: | The original article is available in the Journal of Interdisciplinary Economics 13 (1-3) pp 267-304 2002 published by AB Academic Publishers. |
Uncontrolled Discrete Keywords: | industries, low technology industries, high technology industries, medium technology industries, Community Innovation Survey, United Kingdom |
Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28 Management. Industrial Management |
Divisions: | College of Business, Psychology and Sport > Worcester Business School |
Depositing User: | Howard Cox |
Date Deposited: | 08 Nov 2007 14:38 |
Last Modified: | 08 Jun 2021 09:26 |
URI: | https://eprints.worc.ac.uk/id/eprint/223 |
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