期刊
RESEARCH POLICY
卷 44, 期 4, 页码 965-976出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2014.11.008
关键词
Firm-level innovation; Innovation policy; Innovative Human Capital; Innovation production function
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资金
- Irish Research Council
- ESRC [ES/K006614/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Economic and Social Research Council [ES/K006614/1] Funding Source: researchfish
The ability to identify and evaluate the competitive advantage of employees' transferable and innovative characteristics is of importance to firms and policymakers. This research extends the standard measure of human capital by developing a unique and far reaching concept of Innovative Human Capital and emphasises its effect on small firm innovation and hence growth (jobs, sales and productivity). This new Innovative Human Capital concept encapsulates four elements: education, training, willingness to change in the workplace and job satisfaction to overcome the limitations of measurements used previously. An augmented innovation production function is used to test the hypothesis that small firms who employ managers with Innovative Human Capital are more likely to innovate. There is evidence from the results that Innovative Human Capital may be more valuable to small firms (i.e. less than 50 employees) than larger-sized firms (i.e. more than 50 employees). The research expands innovation theory to include the concept of Innovative Human Capital as a competitive advantage and determinant of small firm innovation; and distinguishes Innovative Human Capital as a significant concept to consider when creating public support programmes for small firms. (C) 2014 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.
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