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- Title
Innovation in firms, resilience and the economic downturn: Insights from CIS data in Portugal.
- Authors
Pinto, Hugo; Pereira, Tiago Santos; Uyarra, Elvira
- Abstract
There is an interest in understanding the effect of economic crises such as the one that hit the financial markets in the late 2000s, on the innovation performance of countries and regions. This paper introduces the concept of "resilience of innovation" to illustrate how the economic slowdown affects firms' behaviour in terms of their ability to maintain and develop innovative activities and deploy product and process innovation. Using Portugal as a case study—an EU member‐state that was heavily affected by the economic downturn—this paper explores the data collected from four waves of the Community Innovation Survey from 2006 to 2012. It presents two‐stage limited dependent variable models to understand the changing impacts of structural factors, innovative activities and strategies in terms of exploration and exploitation of knowledge on the development of product and process innovation. We find knowledge exploration to be particularly important for product innovation, while exploitation is a strong determinant for process innovation. Size, market knowledge sources and public funding for innovation are positively associated with both types of innovation in the peak of the crisis. This reiterates the importance of innovation support efforts to mitigate the effects of economic shocks and boost recovery.
- Subjects
PORTUGAL; RECESSIONS; SOCIAL surveys; ECONOMIC shock; TECHNOLOGICAL innovations; FINANCIAL crises
- Publication
Regional Science Policy & Practice, 2019, Vol 11, Issue 6, p951
- ISSN
1757-7802
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/rsp3.12243