IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/spr/eurchp/978-3-319-67916-7_11.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

Complementarities of Innovation Strategies: Evidence from Transition Economies

In: Eurasian Economic Perspectives

Author

Listed:
  • George Berulava

    (I. Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University)

  • Teimuraz Gogokhia

    (I. Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University)

Abstract

This paper explores complementarities among innovation strategies in transition economies. Specifically, on the basis of data from the fifth round of Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey (BEEPS V), we have investigated the existence of possible complementarities between various types of innovation modes (product, process and non-technological (marketing and/or organizational) innovations) in their impact on the firm’s productivity. The study reveals complementarity between the following two combinations of innovations: product/process and process/non-technological innovations. Further, the results of the study show that only those combinations of innovation modes that assume all the types of innovations and/or the combination of process and non-technological innovations have positive and statistically significant impact on the firm’s productivity. In the paper, we account for the simultaneous occurrence of different types of innovation inputs—in-house knowledge generation and out-house knowledge acquisition activities—and estimate their joint effects on various modes of innovation. The study results suggest that implementation of internal research and development (R&D) strategy can stimulate not only technological innovations but non-technological innovative activity as well. However, we find that external knowledge acquisition strategy has positive and statistically significant effect on innovation output only when the firm’s innovation mix incorporates non-technological novelties.

Suggested Citation

  • George Berulava & Teimuraz Gogokhia, 2018. "Complementarities of Innovation Strategies: Evidence from Transition Economies," Eurasian Studies in Business and Economics, in: Mehmet Huseyin Bilgin & Hakan Danis & Ender Demir & Ugur Can (ed.), Eurasian Economic Perspectives, pages 169-192, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:eurchp:978-3-319-67916-7_11
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-67916-7_11
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Teimuraz Gogokhia & George Berulava, 2021. "Business environment reforms, innovation and firm productivity in transition economies," Eurasian Business Review, Springer;Eurasia Business and Economics Society, vol. 11(2), pages 221-245, June.
    2. Stojkoski, Viktor & Toshevska-Trpchevska, Katerina & Makrevska Disoska, Elena & Tevdovski, Dragan, 2021. "Identifying complementary relationships between different types of innovation: Evidence from Community Innovation Survey 2012," MPRA Paper 108753, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    3. Berulava, George & Gogokhia, Teimuraz, 2021. "The Impact of Business Environment Reforms on Firms’ Performance in Transition Economies," MPRA Paper 106327, University Library of Munich, Germany.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:spr:eurchp:978-3-319-67916-7_11. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.springer.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.