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The effects of industry characteristics on the sources of technological product and process innovation

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In order to explore the effects of industry characteristics on the sources of technological product and process (TPP) innovation, this paper considers various sources in a united framework, and identifies their cross-industry similarities and differences. It sheds light on three Chinese high technology industries, and empirically confirms that in-house R&D, technology transfer, technology spillover and back-propagation of user innovations are all effective sources of TPP innovation. However, each source creates different productivity in different industries, which may be explained by the following industry characteristics: the dependence on foreign technology, the importance attached to inventive in-house R&D, the level of domestic technology, the relative proportions of foreign and domestic users.

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Liang, H., Zhang, Z. The effects of industry characteristics on the sources of technological product and process innovation. J Technol Transf 37, 867–884 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10961-011-9206-y

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