Sources of information for innovation: the role of companies’ motivations
分析了公司创新时使用的信息来源，比较了大学、公共研究机构等科学导向来源与客户、供应商等市场导向来源，发现动机是决定信息来源的关键因素，为政策制定和企业管理者提供了启示。
The paper analyses the information sources that companies use to innovate. The analysis compares two science-oriented sources of information (universities and public research institutes) with two market-oriented sources (clients and suppliers). The analysis demonstrates the importance of motivations as determinants of the sources of information used. Adding motivations to the established ‘structural’ explanations provides a new way of capturing companies’ search for information and emphasises the direction rather than the breadth of the search process. The results of this analysis also have implications both for policy-making and for companies’ managers, which are discussed in the paper’s conclusions.