Firm Size, Profitability and Innovation Inputs: An Empirical Study
This paper examines the relation between firm size and manufacturing firms innovation inputs, and the impact of firms profitability on innovation inputs, using Zhejiang Economic Census Data for the year 2004. The results reveal that for all manufacturing firms, firm size is an important factor to affect firms innovation inputs, and there is significant linear relationship between firm size and innovation inputs, and inverted U relationship between firm profitability and innovation inputs. However, this paper finds that as to determinants of innovation inputs, there is great discrepancy among different industries. Also, this paper shows firms innovation inputs for different type firms.
Firm size Profitability Innovation inputs Inverted U relationship
WENG Jie ZHOU Li
College of Business and Administration, Zhejiang University of Technology, P.R.China
国际会议
The Tenth West Lake International Conference on Small & Medium Business(第十届西湖国际中小企业研讨会)
杭州
英文
130-135
2008-10-25（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）