Technological Innovation: An Intellectual Capital Based View

✍ Scribed by Gregorio Martín de Castro, Miriam Delgado Verde, Pedro López Sáez , José Emilio Navas López

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 202
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Focussing on innovation management, this book explores the role of knowledge stocks or intellectual capital blocks (human, social, technological, organizational and regional capitals) on the technological innovation processes typologies (process/product, radical/incremental) and firm performance, absorptive capabilities and organizational learning.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
List of Figures......Page 9
List of Tables......Page 10
Acknowledgements......Page 12
Foreword......Page 13
Introduction......Page 15
Knowledge, strategy and the firm......Page 22
Path dependence and evolutionary perspectives......Page 24
Technological innovation and the management of technology......Page 25
Organizational learning and the knowledge-based theory of the firm......Page 26
The resource-based view of competitive advantage......Page 27
Obtaining competitive advantage......Page 28
Sustaining competitive advantage......Page 29
A comprehensive synthesis of the resource-based view......Page 31
Degree of heterogeneity......Page 32
Degree of complexity......Page 33
The intellectual capital-based view of competitive advantage......Page 34
Characteristics and components......Page 35
Providing a theory for intellectual capital......Page 36
Intellectual capital and the knowledge-based view of the firm......Page 37
Intellectual capital and the resource-based view of competitive advantage......Page 38
Intellectual capital and firm competition......Page 40
Goods and services market, and intellectual capital markets......Page 42
Exploration and exploitation......Page 45
Firms' intellectual capital: origins and concept......Page 48
Human capital......Page 54
Structural capital......Page 59
Technological capital......Page 61
Relational capital......Page 62
Technological innovation: concept and evolution......Page 67
Concept of innovation......Page 68
Innovation process......Page 74
Technological and administrative/management innovations......Page 77
Modular and architectural innovations......Page 79
Radical and incremental innovations......Page 81
Market pull and technology push innovations......Page 85
Competence-enhancing and competence-destroying innovations......Page 86
Overview of innovation types and the choice of technological innovation......Page 87
Product and process innovation......Page 90
4 The Role of Intellectual Capital in Technological Innovation......Page 94
Intellectual capital and technological innovation......Page 95
The role of human capital in technological innovation......Page 96
The role of structural capital in technological innovation......Page 98
The role of relational capital in technological innovation......Page 104
Population and sampling procedures......Page 111
Characteristics of high and medium-high technology manufacturing industries located in Spain......Page 115
Additional sampling criteria......Page 119
Measurement of variables......Page 122
Information sources and data gathering......Page 125
Designing the 'ad hoc' questionnaire......Page 128
Sample characteristics and statistical representativeness......Page 130
6 Research Results......Page 133
Descriptive statistics......Page 134
Designing and developing an intellectual capital model for high and medium-high technology firms: exploratory and confirmatory analysis......Page 135
Human capital......Page 138
Structural capital......Page 145
Relational capital......Page 152
Causal analysis: intellectual capital and technological innovation......Page 159
Theoretical conclusions......Page 162
Empirical conclusions......Page 164
Limitations of the study......Page 167
Future research......Page 168
References......Page 169
Appendices......Page 187
Index......Page 200