Quality characteristics of innovation process and absorption of foreign knowledge

The firm’s ability to technological knowledge exchange is a significant factor in innovation development. The paper aims to examine a connection between the quality of innovation process and foreign technological knowledge absorption. Toward this end, the analyze of innovation activity dynamic structure is used. We compare the prevailing types of innovation processes with different types of technological knowledge that are being imported. The type of innovation process is determined by the quality of its result, and correlated with the market and technological novelty of the innovation products. We study the Russian product and process innovative enterprises at a regional level. The four regions of the Russian Federation with developed manufacture were chosen. We used a dataset (from 2009 to 2018), and show that if the regional enterprises actively invest in R&D and absorb foreign disembodied technologies, they can change the structure of innovation activity, improving the quality of innovation process

Keywords: national innovation system, technology, quality, absorptive capacity, knowledge type, regional firm, innovation policy

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