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Das Innovationsprofil der Schweizer Industrie: Determinanten, Zielorientierung und Hemmnisfaktoren der Innovationstätigkeit

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  • Spyros Arvanitis
  • Heinz Hollenstein

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The competitiveness of the Swiss economy depends in a crucial way on a high level of the firms' innovative activities. In this perspective we compare, first, the innovation performance of the manufacturing sector with other highly developed countries using a whole set of innovation indicators. Secondly, the firms' innovation intensity is analyzed based on a model proposed in industrial economics, which is enhanced by variables depicting firm-specific innovation strategies and location-specific innovation impediments (cross-section analysis at the firm level). This theory-based procedure yields a profile of innovative activity in Switzerland. In assessing the innovation performance and the underlying innovation pattern we take account of some basic structural characteristics of the Swiss economy (size of the country, size structure of the economy, composition of human capital). On the whole, the "Swiss-specific" way of innovating produces very good results when compared to other countries.

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  • Spyros Arvanitis & Heinz Hollenstein, 1996. "Das Innovationsprofil der Schweizer Industrie: Determinanten, Zielorientierung und Hemmnisfaktoren der Innovationstätigkeit," Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics (SJES), Swiss Society of Economics and Statistics (SSES), vol. 132(III), pages 335-358, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:ses:arsjes:1996-iii-7
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    1. Spyros Arvanitis & Florian Seliger, 2014. "Imitation versus innovation," KOF Working papers 14-367, KOF Swiss Economic Institute, ETH Zurich.

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