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Interactive learning-driven innovation within production chains in developing economies

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  • Tomohiro Machikita
  • Yasushi Ueki

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This paper presents a simple framework of the innovations that result from interfirm learning through exchanges of engineers in upstream-downstream relations within a production chain. To examine the framework, we empirically investigate the impact of mutual knowledge exchanges on product and process innovation using a survey of firm's self-reporting customer and supplier data in Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam. Evidence from interconnected firms within a production chain suggests that firms with mutual exchanges between engineers and customers achieved product innovations with new technologies and new markets. However, this is not true for simple improvement of products or process innovation. Mutual exchanges with engineers between producers and suppliers within a chain can be expected to play an important role in the case of costly innovation and in situations unknown to the firms.

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  • Tomohiro Machikita & Yasushi Ueki, 2012. "Interactive learning-driven innovation within production chains in developing economies," International Journal of Technological Learning, Innovation and Development, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 5(4), pages 346-366.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijtlid:v:5:y:2012:i:4:p:346-366
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    Cited by:

    1. Tomohiro MACHIKITA & Yasushi UEKI, 2013. "Who Disseminates Technology to Whom, How, and Why: Evidence from Buyer-Seller Business Networks," Working Papers DP-2013-26, Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA).
    2. Ueki, Yasushi, 2015. "Trade costs and exportation: A comparison between enterprises in Southeast Asia and Latin America," Journal of Business Research, Elsevier, vol. 68(4), pages 888-893.
    3. Ueki, Yasushi, 2014. "Trade obstacles, inventory level of inputs, and internationalization of enterprise activities : a comparison between Southeast Asia and Latin America," IDE Discussion Papers 474, Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organization(JETRO).

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