Technological Innovation An Intellectual Capital Based View

by Martín de Castro, Gregorio; Delgado Verde, Miriam; Sáez, Pedro López; López, José Emilio Navas

• ISBN13: 9780230230217
• ISBN10: 0230230210
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-06-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

In an uncertain, competitive and dynamic environment, the capability to create and apply new knowledge represents one of the main sources of sustained competitive advantage. Intellectual capital stocks, as well as their different manifestations, play a critical role in the effective development of a firm's technological innovation.

Author Biography

Gregorio Martin de Castro is Associate Professor of Business Administration at Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain. He holds an expert Diploma in Intellectual Capital and Knowledge Management from IUEE, Spain, and Insead, France. He has been a Fellow at Harvard University, USA, and the University of Manchester, UK. He is the author and co-author of several papers on Intellectual Capital and Knowledge Management.
Miriam Delgado Verde is Assistant Professor of Business Administration at Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain. She was a Fellow at the Manchester Institute of Innovation Research, University of Manchester, UK, from 2008 to 2009. She is the author and co-author of several papers, books and chapters on Intellectual Capital and Technological Innovation.
Pedro Lopez Saez is Associate Professor of Business Administration at Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain. He was a Fellow at Real Complutense de Madrid-Harvard University from 2004 to 2005. He is the author and co-author of several papers on Intellectual Capital and Knowledge Management.
Jose Emilio Navas Lopez is Professor of Business Administration at Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain. He is the author and co-author of several books and papers on Technology Management, Strategy and Knowledge Management. He is also the main researcher on several research projects, and leads the Complutense Research Group on `Strategy, Knowledge and Innovation in Firms'.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	p. viii
List of Tables	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. xi
Foreword	p. xii
Introduction	p. xiv
Theoretical Framework	p. 1
Knowledge, strategy and the firm	p. 1
The resource-based view	p. 3
Path dependence and evolutionary perspectives	p. 3
Technological innovation and the management of technology	p. 4
Organizational learning and the knowledge-based theory of the firm	p. 5
Social systems theory and the knowledge-based theory of the firm	p. 6
The resource-based view of competitive advantage	p. 6
Obtaining competitive advantage	p. 7
Sustaining competitive advantage	p. 8
A comprehensive synthesis of the resource-based view	p. 10
Value	p. 11
Degree of heterogeneity	p. 11
Degree of complexity	p. 12
The intellectual capital-based view of competitive advantage	p. 13
Characteristics and components	p. 14
Providing a theory for intellectual capital	p. 15
Intellectual capital and the knowledge-based view of the firm	p. 16
Intellectual capital and the resource-based view of competitive advantage	p. 17
Intellectual capital and firm competition	p. 19
Goods and services market, and intellectual capital markets	p. 21
Exploration and exploitation	p. 24
Firms' Intellectual Capital	p. 27
Firms' intellectual capital: origins and concept	p. 27
Human capital	p. 33
Structural capital	p. 38
Technological capital	p. 40
Organizational capital	p. 41
Relational capital	p. 41
Technological Innovation	p. 46
Technological Innovation: concept and evolution	p. 46
Concept of innovation	p. 47
Innovation process	p. 53
Innovation typologies	p. 56
Technological and administrative/management innovations	p. 56
Modular and architectural innovations	p. 58
Radical and incremental innovations	p. 60
Market pull and technology push innovations	p. 64
Competence-enhancing and competence-destroying innovations	p. 65
Overview of innovation types and the choice of technological innovation	p. 66
Product and process innovation	p. 69
The Role of Intellectual Capital in Technological Innovation	p. 73
Intellectual capital and technological innovation	p. 74
The role of human capital in technological innovation	p. 75
The role of structural capital in technological innovation	p. 77
The role of relational capital in technological innovation	p. 83
Methodology	p. 90
Population and sampling procedures	p. 90
Characteristics of high and medium-high technology manufacturing industries located in Spain	p. 94
Additional sampling criteria	p. 98
Measurement of variables	p. 101
Information sources and data gathering	p. 104
Designing the 'ad hoc' questionnaire	p. 107
Sample characteristics and statistical representativeness	p. 109
Research Results	p. 112
Preliminary analysis	p. 113
Descriptive statistics	p. 113
Designing and developing an intellectual capital model for high and medium-high technology firms: exploratory and confirmatory analysis	p. 114
Human capital	p. 117
Structural capital	p. 124
Relational capital	p. 131
Causal analysis: intellectual capital and technological innovation	p. 138
Conclusions, Limitations and Future Research	p. 141
Conclusions	p. 141
Theoretical conclusions	p. 141
Empirical conclusions	p. 143
Limitations of the study	p. 146
Future research	p. 147
References	p. 148
Appendices	p. 166
Index	p. 179
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