The Moderating Role of Competence Specialization in the Effect of External R&D on Innovative Performance

IRPN: Innovation Strategy (Topic) Pub Date : 2018-10-24 DOI:10.1111/radm.12344

Byeong-Seok Koo, Chang‐Yang Lee

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This paper studies the functional specialization of SMEs’ technological competence and its moderating role in the effect of external R&D on their innovative performance. Technological competence consists of many functional dimensions such as basic research, product architecture, process construction, testing, and evaluation, which constitute a sequence of innovation tasks. The specialization of technological competence allows SMEs to utilize economies of specialization in R&D, enhance their bargaining power and appropriability conditions in the process of external R&D, and attract promising R&D partners. However, competence specialization may hamper SMEs’ capabilities to coordinate and integrate diverse external R&D projects. Using a sample of SMEs in Korean manufacturing industries, we find the following results. First, competence specialization positively moderates the effect of external R&D on SMEs’ innovative performance. Second, the positive moderating effect of competence specialization diminishes as the share of external R&D increases. Third, the moderating effect of competence specialization differs across industries depending on the degree of market dominance by a few large firms (i.e., market concentration) and the novelty of technologies pursued by SMEs in each industry.

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能力专业化在外部研发对创新绩效影响中的调节作用

本文研究了中小企业的职能专业化问题。技术能力及其在外部研发对企业创新绩效影响中的调节作用。技术能力包括基础研究、产品架构、工艺构建、测试和评价等多个功能维度，构成一系列创新任务。技术能力的专业化使中小企业能够利用专业化的研发经济，提高其在外部研发过程中的议价能力和适宜性条件，吸引有潜力的研发合作伙伴。然而，能力专业化可能会阻碍中小企业的发展。协调和整合各种外部研发项目的能力。以韩国制造业中小企业为样本，我们发现了以下结果:第一，能力专业化正向调节外部研发对中小企业的影响[8217];创新的性能。第二，能力专业化的正向调节作用随着外部研发份额的增加而减弱。第三，能力专业化的调节作用在不同行业中有所不同，这取决于少数大企业的市场主导程度(即市场集中度)和每个行业中中小企业追求技术的新颖性。

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