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A comparative study of innovation behaviour in Singapore's KIBS and manufacturing firms

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  • Poh Kam Wong
  • Zi-Lin He

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While most services innovation studies are concentrated on the OECD or EU countries, research on services innovation in the non-OECD context is still rare. This study investigates innovation behaviour of a certain group of services -- knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS), compared with the manufacturing sector in Singapore. The main findings of this study are: (1) KIBS firms have higher innovating ratio than manufacturing firms, but innovating manufacturing firms are more likely to do R&D than innovating KIBS firms; (2) KIBS firms have higher human capital intensity, training spending intensity, innovation spending intensity, and R&D spending intensity than manufacturing firms; (3) KIBS firms and manufacturing firms have similar innovation objectives, although some delicate nuances do exist; (4) KIBS firms are less likely to have overseas partners for innovation collaboration than manufacturing firms; (5) there is a U pattern of innovation collaboration with geographic distance for both KIBS and manufacturing firms; (6) social capitals are important for KIBS firms' successful provision of innovation support to manufacturing clients; (7) the importance of spatial proximity varies over different phases of innovation support.

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  • Poh Kam Wong & Zi-Lin He, 2005. "A comparative study of innovation behaviour in Singapore's KIBS and manufacturing firms," The Service Industries Journal, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 25(1), pages 23-42, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:servic:v:25:y:2005:i:1:p:23-42
    DOI: 10.1080/0264206042000302397
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