The innovation performance of Irish and foreign-owned firms: The roles of R&D and networking

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dc.contributor.authorDoran, Justin
dc.contributor.authorO'Leary, Eoin
dc.date.accessioned2018-04-19T11:04:06Z
dc.date.available2018-04-19T11:04:06Z
dc.date.issued2016-01-20
dc.date.updated2018-04-17T14:25:39Z
dc.description.abstractThis paper contributes to the growing evidence that Irish and foreign‐owned firms based in Ireland conduct their innovation activities differently from each other. It tests the Cohen and Levinthal hypothesis, separately for Irish and foreign‐owned firms, that undertaking R&D and collaborating with external networks together enhance the probability of product and process innovation. To control for potential endogeneity of the external networking variables, a two‐step procedure is used with predicted probabilities used as instruments in the estimated production functions. Based on data from the Irish Community Innovation Survey 2006 to 2008, the results suggest that Irish‐owned firms which engage in external networks with public knowledge sources, while simultaneously undertaking R&D, are more likely to innovate than firms which perform these two activities individually. Irish‐owned firms which engage in backward networking for product and forward networking for process innovation while also undertaking R&D are less likely to be innovative, perhaps suggesting a substitution effect. These results for Irish‐owned firms provide some support for Cohen and Levinthal's hypothesis. However, foreign‐owned firms seem to behave differently, being largely self‐contained and relying exclusively on intramural R&D for innovation as the external networking variables, both individually and when interacted with R&D, have no effect on innovation likelihood.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
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dc.identifier.citationDoran, J. and O'Leary, E. (2016) 'The Innovation Performance of Irish and Foreign‐owned Firms: The Roles of R&D and Networking', The World Economy, 39(9), pp. 1384-1398. doi: 10.1111/twec.12378en
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/twec.12378
dc.identifier.endpage1398en
dc.identifier.issn0378-5920
dc.identifier.issn1467-9701
dc.identifier.issued9en
dc.identifier.journaltitleThe World Economyen
dc.identifier.startpage1384en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/5827
dc.identifier.volume39en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherWileyen
dc.relation.urihttp://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/twec.12378/full
dc.rights© 2016 John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Doran, J. and O'Leary, E. (2016), The Innovation Performance of Irish and Foreign‐owned Firms: The Roles of R&D and Networking. World Econ, 39: 1384-1398, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/twec.12378. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving.en
dc.subjectInnovationen
dc.subjectIrish‐owned firmsen
dc.subjectResearch & development (R&D)en
dc.subjectIrish Community Innovation Surveyen
dc.subjectCohen and Levinthal hypothesisen
dc.subjectInnovation production functionen
dc.titleThe innovation performance of Irish and foreign-owned firms: The roles of R&D and networkingen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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