Artikel

High Innovativeness of SMEs and the Configuration of Learning-by-Doing, Learning-by-Using, Learning-by-Interacting, and Learning-by-Science: a Regional Comparison Applying Fuzzy Qualitative Comparative Analysis

This paper proposes a holistic approach for investigating high innovation performance in SMEs by comparing different German regions. Invoking insights from the innovation mode concept and existing literature on regional innovation, we apply a qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) of 47 interviews with SMEs to show that high innovativeness is based on a bundle of conditions summarized as mechanisms of learning-by-doing, learning-by-using, learning-by-interacting, and learning-by-science. The results indicate that only parts of the DUI mode, in combination with the STI mode, can explain high innovativeness. This has implications for managers as well as for innovation policy, highlighting that there is no universal "best way" to become highly innovative.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Journal: Journal of the Knowledge Economy ; ISSN: 1868-7873 ; Volume: 13 ; Year: 2021 ; Issue: 2 ; Pages: 1666-1691 ; New York, NY: Springer US

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Thema
Combinatorial knowledge
DUI
Innovation mode
STI

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Bennat, Tatjana
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Springer US
(wo)
New York, NY
(wann)
2021

DOI
doi:10.1007/s13132-021-00774-1
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:45 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Artikel

Beteiligte

  • Bennat, Tatjana
  • Springer US

Entstanden

  • 2021

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