Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/259535 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
LEM Working Paper Series No. 2021/40
Publisher: 
Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM), Pisa
Abstract: 
Innovation is one of the usual suspects in defining differences in performance among firms, according to a strong and diverse theoretical framework. Understanding the diversity that exists within the population of innovative firms is essential to elaborate appropriate innovation policies. Our study explores the diversity of innovation patterns among Norwegian firms included in the 2018 Community innovation survey (CIS2018). By applying factor analysis on a wide array of survey variables and on a large sample of firms, we identify eleven typical approaches to innovation, which recurrently connect innovation inputs and outputs at firm level. A main outcome of our study is a renewed fine-grained view on innovation as a multifaceted concept.
Subjects: 
Technological change
Innovation survey
Factor analysis
Business strategies
Intra-industry heterogeneity
JEL: 
O31
O32
O33
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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