Innovation strategies in European Union transport firms. the role of process innovation

Zastempowski, Maciej; Cyfert, Szymon

doi:10.17512/pjms.2023.28.1.23

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Innovation strategies in European Union transport firms. the role of process innovation

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Zastempowski Maciej , Cyfert Szymon

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10.17512/pjms.2023.28.1.23

Warianty tytułu

Strategie innowacyjności firm transportowych unii europejskiej. Rola innowacji procesowej

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Abstrakty

Although transport is the largest industrial RandD investor in the European Union (EU), there is little research that relates directly to innovation in the transport sector, especially studies combining the issues of strategy and process innovation. Therefore, the article's novelty is related to the fact that no research on the impact of innovative strategies on the implementation of process innovations in the transport sector has been conducted so far. Moreover, previous studies treated process innovations as one construct without referring to particular types of innovations. Consequently, the article aims to analyse the relationship between six specific innovation strategies and three types of process innovations introduced by transport companies. In the empirical part, investigate a set of microdata is investigated from 14 EU countries derived from the 2016 wave of the Community Innovation Survey. Using the estimation of probit regression models, obtain the following main conclusions were obtained. The EU transport sector needs innovative strategies to support process innovations, although the impact of individual innovative strategies on the implementation of process innovations varies. The following three types of innovation strategies increase transport companies' process innovation: 1) in-house RandD, 2) acquisition of machinery, equipment, software and buildings, and 3) training for innovative activities.

Chociaż transport jest największym przemysłowym inwestorem B+R w Unii Europejskiej (UE), niewiele badań dotyczy bezpośrednio innowacji w sektorze transportu, zwłaszcza tych łączących zagadnienia strategii i innowacji procesowych. Dlatego też niniejszy artykuł ma na celu analizę zależności pomiędzy sześcioma konkretnymi strategiami innowacyjnymi a trzema typami innowacji procesowych wprowadzanych przez przedsiębiorstwa transportowe. W części empirycznej badamy zestaw mikrodanych z 14 krajów UE pochodzących z badania Community Innovation Survey (CIS) z 2016 roku. Korzystając z estymacji modeli regresji probitowej, uzyskujemy następujące kluczowe wnioski. Sektor transportu UE potrzebuje innowacyjnych strategii wspierających innowacje procesowe, chociaż wpływ poszczególnych strategii innowacyjnych na wdrażanie innowacji procesowych jest różny. Następujące trzy rodzaje strategii innowacyjnych zwiększają innowacyjność procesową przedsiębiorstw transportowych: 1) wewnętrzne badania i rozwój, 2) nabywanie maszyn, urządzeń, oprogramowania i budynków oraz 3) szkolenia w zakresie działań innowacyjnych.

Słowa kluczowe

process innovation innovation strategy transport RandD expenditures CIS

innowacja procesowa strategia innowacyjna transport B+R nakłady CIS

Wydawca

Czestochowa University of Technology

Czasopismo

Polish Journal of Management Studies

Rocznik

2023

Tom

Vol. 28. No. 1

Strony

397--413

Opis fizyczny

Bibliogr. 59 poz., rys., tab.

Twórcy

autor

Zastempowski Maciej

mz@umk.pl

Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8196-3236

autor

Cyfert Szymon

Poznan University of Economics and Business, Poland

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5563-1403

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Opracowanie rekordu ze środków MNiSW, umowa nr SONP/SP/546092/2022 w ramach programu "Społeczna odpowiedzialność nauki" - moduł: Popularyzacja nauki i promocja sportu (2024).

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