ICT Use and Firm Innovation
(2015) NEKP01 20151Department of Economics
- Abstract
- This study aims at investigating whether ICT use enables firm innovation. Moreover, it aims at ascertaining whether ICT use determines firms’ degree of innovativeness and cooperation with different types of partners such as customers, suppliers and research institutions. Based on detailed Swedish firm-level data provided by Statistics Sweden that combines the innovation survey from 2012 with the survey of firms’ ICT usage from 2010, a binary probit model has been applied for the empirical analysis. The results suggest that ICT use has a positive and significant effect on firm innovation. This is in accordance with previous studies within this field. Firms’ ICT usage does however not have a significant effect on the most innovative firms,... (More)
- This study aims at investigating whether ICT use enables firm innovation. Moreover, it aims at ascertaining whether ICT use determines firms’ degree of innovativeness and cooperation with different types of partners such as customers, suppliers and research institutions. Based on detailed Swedish firm-level data provided by Statistics Sweden that combines the innovation survey from 2012 with the survey of firms’ ICT usage from 2010, a binary probit model has been applied for the empirical analysis. The results suggest that ICT use has a positive and significant effect on firm innovation. This is in accordance with previous studies within this field. Firms’ ICT usage does however not have a significant effect on the most innovative firms, whereas it has a positive and significant effect on less innovative firms, which suggests that ICT usage primarily determines whether firms are innovative and not their degree of innovativeness. (Less)
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- author
- Erlandsson, Frida LU
- supervisor
- organization
- alternative title
- An Empirical Analysis Based on Swedish Firm-Level Data
- course
- NEKP01 20151
- year
- 2015
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- keywords
- Innovation, ICT
- language
- English
- id
- 5472736
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- 2015-06-30 10:23:40
- date last changed
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