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The Moderating Effect of Firm's Internal Climate
for Innovation on the Impact of Public R&D Support
Programs
| Speaker : |
Mr. He Zilin, Doctoral student
of Business Policy and CMIT |
| Date: |
18 April 2001 (Wednesday)
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| Time: |
10.30am - 12:00noon |
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CMIT/CBRD Seminar Room,
FBA2 Basement, NUS |
Abstract
Adopting a broader behavioral additionality framework
for evaluating public R&D support programs, this
study investigates explicitly the moderating effect
of firm's internal climate for innovation on the
relationship between public R&D support and firm
innovation behavior. We hypothesize that if there
is a positive relationship between public R&D support
and firm innovation activities, this phenomenon
is more likely to be observed in firms with a promotive
internal climate for innovation, rather than in
firms with a restrictive one. Based on a sample
of 135 Singapore manufacturing firms, we discover
significant moderating effect of firm's internal
climate for innovation on the impact of public R&D
support on several measures of firm innovation input,
output and collaboration behavior. We identify two
distinct dimensions of internal climate for innovation
(organizational policies and individual attitudes)
which exhibit different moderating effect. Moreover,
if this moderating effect is not taken into account,
the impact of public R&D support on some aspects
of firm innovation behavior may be obscured.
About the Speaker
Mr. He is currently a doctoral student of the department
of Business Policy and Center for Management of
Innovation and Technopreneurship. Prior to this,
he obtained his Bachelor in Material Engineering
(1995), Bachelor in Management Science (1995), and
Master in International Business (1998) from Shanghai
Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China. He was also
once a research assistant for National Die & Mould
Engineering Center from 1995 to 1996.
We are pleased to invite you and your colleagues
to attend the talk. Please forward this invitation
to your friends and colleagues who may be interested.
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