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Title: | Reviving demand-pull perspectives: The effect of demand uncertainty and stagnancy on R&D strategy |
Author: | Garcia-Quevedo, Jose Pellegrino, Gabriele Savona, Maria |
Keywords: | Gestió de la innovació Recerca industrial Oferta i demanda Innovation management Industrial research Supply and demand |
Issue Date: | 27-Sep-2016 |
Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
Abstract: | This paper looks at the effects of demand uncertainty and stagnancy on firms' decisions to engage in R&D activities and the amount of financial effort devoted to these. The paper provides a number of contributions to the innovation literature: first, it adds to the revived debate on demand-pull perspectives in innovation studies by examining demand-related (lack of) incentives to invest in innovation. Second, it complements the literature on barriers to innovation by focusing on demand-related obstacles rather than the more frequently explored financial barriers. Third, it analyses whether experiencing demand barriers is a sector-specific feature. Firms active in high- or low-tech manufacturing or in knowledge-intensive or low-tech services might be more or less dependent on demand conditions when deciding to perform RΔ ... |
Note: | Versió postprint del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.1093/cje/bew042 |
It is part of: | Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2016, vol. 41, num. 4, p. 1087-1122 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2445/113682 |
Related resource: | https://doi.org/10.1093/cje/bew042 |
ISSN: | 0309-166X |
Appears in Collections: | Articles publicats en revistes (Economia) |
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