Intellectual capital system perspective: A case study of government intervention in digital media industries

In this book the authors are exploring how the linkages within the system can be conceptualised and made transparent.Graciela Corral de Zubielqui, Allan O'Connor and Pi-Shen See

An Exploration of collaboration, import and export relationships, and firm age

Graciela Corral de Zubielqui, Susan Freemanhttp://www.anziba.org

Exploring the influence of globalisation and innovation on firm performance

Graciela Corral De Zubielqui and Noel Lindsayhttp://www.swinburne.edu.au/lib/ir/onlineconferences/agse2008

Doing well by doing good: a study of university-industry interactions, innovationess and firm performance in sustainability-oriented Australian SMEs

Abstract not availableJane Jones, Graciela Corral de Zubielqu

Depicting Innovation: cross-cultural factors

Schumpeter in 1942 clearly established the necessity of innovation for all forms of global competition. Innovation, understood as something new that can create value, the integration or generation of new ideas to generate products or services is widely view as a key driver for a country‟s economic growth. Further, policies for economic development are often drafted around a country‟s innovative capacity and usually then transferred across Nations as a form of templates for key economic development initiatives. However, there are many definitions of innovation across country/culture levels and therefore the concept of innovation can raise definitional issues. This research argues that a country‟s culture may have an impact in defining innovation and as a consequence in the final outputs. Furthermore, the intention of this research is to understand how innovation is perceived across different cultural groups and demonstrate that a unique or singular perception may not be as effective in depicting this important term. This research presents findings across three different countries with very distinctive cultures, although all of them are in the Asia Pacific area. This study finds that the interpretation of innovation across the responders is influenced by their location. Further study is required to understand in depth the reasons for these differences.Carmen Reaiche, Graciela Corral de Zubielqui, Stephen Boyl

Knowledge inflows from market- and science-based actors, absorptive capacity, innovation and performance: a study of SMEs

Small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are increasingly opening up their innovation processes in order to improve innovation outcomes. Exactly how openness influences enterprises’ ability to innovate and benefit from external sources of innovation is not well understood. Despite theoretical models explicating knowledge inflows as the antecedent and innovation as the consequence of absorptive capacity, to date, the relationships between external knowledge inflows from specific external actors, absorptive capacity, innovation and SME performance remain underexplored. We address this gap, focussing on market- and science-based knowledge flows, absorptive capacity, innovation and SME performance. Using structural equation modelling on a sample of 838 Australians SMEs, we find evidence indicating that the mechanisms by which external knowledge inflows from market- and science-based actors affect innovation differ: external knowledge inflows from market-based actors influence innovation directly or “serendipitously”, while external knowledge inflows from science-based actors influence innovation indirectly via absorptive capacity. We also find that their effect on innovation differ, with external knowledge inflows from market-based actors exerting a positive direct effect on innovation vis-à-vis external knowledge inflows from science-based actors where there is no significant direct effect. In contrast, external knowledge inflows from science-based actors influence innovation through absorptive capacity. In addition to this mediation effect, absorptive capacity has a positive direct effect on innovation, and an effect on firm performance through innovation. This research contributes to our understanding of how, and the extent to which, external knowledge inflows from specific external actors influence absorptive capacity, innovation and firm performance in SMEs.Graciela Corral De Zubielqui, Janice Jones, Laurence Leste

Managing innovation networks for knowledge mobility and appropriability: a complexity perspective

Despite widespread recognition that an enterprise’s critical resources may extend beyond the enterprise’s traditional boundaries, with the focal enterprise drawing upon the resources of other firms and institutions through networks, there is a dearth of empirical research on knowledge mobility and appropriability patterns among innovative Australian small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) through the lens of complexity science. We address this gap, by examining what, how, and why innovation-related knowledge flows from networks into SMEs, and how SMEs protect intellectual property (IP) and appropriate value. Based on a survey of 838 SMEs, we find patterns of internal and external knowledge flows with SMEs searching for ideas internally, and via market-based networks, with internally sourced ideas having the strongest impact on innovativeness. The results also show SMEs are most likely to network with market-based agents relative to localised learning networks. Further, networking with suppliers increases innovativeness, as does sourcing knowledge as part of a package with the purchase of new equipment, underscoring the importance of the vertical supply chain network. Despite limited interaction with localised learning networks, outsourcing R&D to these networks increases innovativeness. We also find that informal IP, in particular, secrecy, complexity of product design, and frequent and rapid changes to products/services increases innovativeness, as do formal copyrights and trademarks. In addition to protecting IP, these practices are product market strategies, enabling SMEs to commercialise innovations and appropriate value. But while appropriability mechanisms provide innovation benefits to individual agents, from the perspective of complexity science, IP mechanisms act as barriers to effective knowledge flows (e.g. information sharing) preventing innovative networking through the mechanism of a positive feedback loop to evolve to the state where distributed intelligence comes into play and facilitates break-through innovations.Graciela Corral de Zubielqui, Janice Jones and Larissa Statsenk

Exploring the influence of drivers, idea sources, and collaboration on globalisation, innovation, and firm performance relationships

Garcia Corral de Zubielqui, Noel Lindsay and Howard Harri

The relevance of innovation and globalisation to firm performance

Research Report submitted to the South Australian Department of Trade and Economic Development and Marion, Onkaparinga, Playford, and Salisbury Councils.G. Corral de Zubielqui, N. Lindsay, H. Harri