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- Title
DOMESTIC AND INTERNATIONAL INNOVATION PARTNERSHIPS: DO THEY MATTER FOR INNOVATION OUTCOMES OF SOUTH AFRICAN FIRMS?
- Authors
Bakker, René M.; Oerlemans, Leon A. A.; Pretorius, Tinus
- Abstract
This paper studies the impact of the diversity of domestic and international innovation partnerships on the innovation outcomes of South African firms. A number of competing hypotheses are formulated and tested empirically using a sample of South African firms in manufacturing and services by applying Ordinary Least Squares regression analyses. Results show that having an innovation partnership, particularly an international partnership, is beneficial to innovation outcomes. However, it also emerges that too diverse a set of international partnerships is detrimental to innovation outcomes. The paper concludes with a discussion and a number of proposals for future research.
- Subjects
SOUTH Africa; INNOVATIONS in business; TECHNOLOGICAL innovations; BUSINESS networks; KNOWLEDGE transfer; ECONOMIC development; BUSINESS enterprises; REGRESSION analysis; BUSINESS partnerships; EMERGING markets; INTERNATIONAL cooperation
- Publication
South African Journal of Economics, 2008, Vol 76, Issue 3, p518
- ISSN
0038-2280
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1813-6982.2008.00202.x