Innovation and business performance - a provisional multi-regional analysis



Table 4: Tobit Models of Knowledge Sourcing Activities - Six-Region Models

R&D Intensity

Supply Chain
Collaboration

Non-Supply Chain
Collaboration

Coeff.       t-ratio

Coeff.       t-ratio

Coeff.       t-ratio

Constant

-10.529

-2.942

-32.001

-1.888

-65.042

-2.937

R&D Intensity

0.118

1.081

0.087

0.704

Supply Chain Collaboration

0.031

2.357

1.278

17.093

Non Supply Chain Collaboration

0.008

0.567

0.979

17.392

Market Position

Plant Vintage (years)

0.013

1.720

-0.040

-1.098

0.036

0.802

Part of Multi-Plant Group

-0.358

-0.549

12.012

3.906

-3.377

-0.855

Production Mainly One Offs

-0.457

-0.640

-4.938

-1.425

-0.950

-0.218

Production Mainly Small Batches

1.236

2.140

-0.919

-0.334

4.997

1.438

Important Barriers: Risk

0.074

0.114

6.031

1.971

0.615

0.162

Important Barriers: Returns

1.071

1.848

0.898

0.325

-3.428

-0.980

Important Barriers: Partners

-1.172

-1.139

-3.447

-0.711

5.627

0.965

Plant is Exporting

0.011

1.063

-0.074

-1.531

0.104

1.738

Employment/Median Emp

-0.089

-1.040

0.377

0.917

-0.295

-0.589

Employment in 1998

0.001

0.210

0.002

0.134

0.016

1.155

Employment Squared

0.000

-0.316

-0.002

-0.706

-0.007

-1.665

Resource Base

Workforce with Degree (%)

0.097

3.809

0.166

1.318

-0.041

-0.259

Workforce with No Qual. (%)

-0.023

-1.851

0.085

1.400

-0.171

-2.220

R&D Department in Plant

7.442

11.745

4.437

1.457

15.896

4.276

R&D in Group

-0.394

-0.621

11.152

3.804

12.676

3.497

Integrated IT Cluster

0.863

1.304

2.269

0.729

2.973

0.746

Quality Oriented Firm

0.644

1.039

6.854

2.357

-3.298

-0.895

Resource Barriers: Attitudes

-1.199

-1.289

2.073

0.481

2.919

0.548

Resource Barriers: Technology

-0.857

-1.107

0.004

0.001

4.464

1.010

Regional Indicators

HERD per person (EU = 1.00)

0.035

0.776

-0.046

-0.216

-0.304

-1.104

GERD per person (EU = 1.00)

0.076

1.064

-0.080

-0.235

0.413

0.961

BERD per person (EU = 1.00)

-0.026

-1.809

-0.020

-0.296

-0.046

-0.537

Supply Chain Collaboration (%)

0.432

2.915

0.910

1.275

-2.383

-2.514

Non-Supply Chain Collab. (%)

-0.340

-1.131

-1.193

-0.833

5.858

3.240

N

1043

1049

1070

Log-L

-2245.8

-2663.2

-1918.9

Note: Each model also included a set of nine industry dummy variables which are not
reported. Details of the 'Integrated IT' and 'Quality Oriented Plant' variables are given
in Annex 1.

Sources: Multi-Regional Database, Tables 1 and 2.

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