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Inter-organisational innovation processes in the European food and drink industry

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  • Ana Isabel Almeida Costa
  • Marco Greco
  • Michele Grimaldi
  • Livio Cricelli
  • Vincenzo Corvello

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Although the food and drink (F%D) industry is Europe's largest manufacturing sector, few studies have explored its innovation activities so far. Starting from the widespread assumption that F%D manufacturers are supplier dominated 'à la Pavitt', we formulated hypotheses about their innovation activities. These were tested through Wilcoxon and Mann-Whitney tests on data drawn from a sample of 54,088 manufacturing firms (7,301 of which operating in the F%D industry) in 14 European countries, participating in Eurostat's 2008 Community Innovation Survey. The results confirm the supplier dominated nature of F%D firms, although also show that some largely anecdotal assumptions about the F%D industry's pattern of innovation cannot be empirically supported.

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  • Ana Isabel Almeida Costa & Marco Greco & Michele Grimaldi & Livio Cricelli & Vincenzo Corvello, 2016. "Inter-organisational innovation processes in the European food and drink industry," International Journal of Management and Enterprise Development, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 15(2/3), pages 191-208.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijmede:v:15:y:2016:i:2/3:p:191-208
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    1. Obradović, Tena & Vlačić, Božidar & Dabić, Marina, 2021. "Open innovation in the manufacturing industry: A review and research agenda," Technovation, Elsevier, vol. 102(C).

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