Are ICT, Workplace Organization and Human Capital Relevant for Innovation? A Comparative Study Based on Swiss and Greek Micro Data

KOF Working Papers No. 333

38 Pages Posted: 6 Mar 2013

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Spyros Arvanitis

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH) - Swiss Institute for Business Cycle Research (KOF)

Euripidis N. Loukis

University of the Aegean

Vasiliki Diamantopoulou

University of the Aegean - Department of Information & Communication Systems Engineering

Date Written: March 5, 2013

Abstract

This paper investigates the relationship between indicators for the intensity of use of ICT (examining three different types of ICT widely used in firms: internal, e-sales, e-procurement IS), several forms of workplace organization, and human capital on one hand, and several measures of innovation performance at firm level on the other hand, in an innovation equation framework, in which was also controlled for standard innovation determinants such as demand, competition and firm size. The empirical part is based on data of Swiss and Greek firms. This paper contributes to literature in three ways: first, it analyzes three important factors, i.e. information technology, workplace organization and human capital, which are considered to be drivers of innovation performance particularly in the last fifteen to twenty years, in the same setting, it uses several innovation indicators that cover both the input and the output side of the innovation process and, third, it does the analysis in a comparative setting for two countries, Greece and Switzerland, with quite different levels of technological and economic development.

Keywords: ICT, workplace organization, product innovation, process innovation

JEL Classification: O31

Suggested Citation

Arvanitis, Spyros and Loukis, Euripidis N. and Diamantopoulou, Vasiliki, Are ICT, Workplace Organization and Human Capital Relevant for Innovation? A Comparative Study Based on Swiss and Greek Micro Data (March 5, 2013). KOF Working Papers No. 333, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2228621 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2228621

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Euripidis N. Loukis

University of the Aegean ( email )

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Vasiliki Diamantopoulou

University of the Aegean - Department of Information & Communication Systems Engineering ( email )

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