No. 28

Peneder, Michael (2008) Entrepreneurship, technological regimes, and productivity growth: Integrated taxonomies of firms and sectors, (August 2008)

This research is aimed at the interlinkages between the micro-and the meso-level of innovation. It focuses first on heterogeneous innovation behaviour among individual firms, and then derives new taxonomies from the distribution of distinct firm types within sectors. The outcome is a set of integrated classifications both at the firm and sectoral levels, which focuses on (i) the kind of entrepreneurship; (ii) technological opportunity; (iii) appropriability conditions; (iv) the cumulativeness of knowledge, and (v) a sector’s general ‘innovation intensity’. Final validations of the clusters confirm, e.g, a significant positive but non-linear impact of a sector’s innovation intensity on labour productivity growth.