Purpose

The purpose of this study is to see how the economy-wide spillover effect affects company process innovation.

Design/methodology/approach

To account for national differences, the current study used a hierarchical model.

Findings

The findings of this study show that knowledge spillover is related to and influences the innovation process of businesses. Only a level two study that takes into account country-specific differences may reveal this. The current work uses a hierarchical model to try to capture knowledge spillover. Furthermore, the findings suggest that medium and large businesses, as well as businesses conducting research and development (R&D), are more inventive than small businesses and firms not conducting R&D. Furthermore, female-owned businesses are more likely than their male counterparts to innovate their processes.

Originality/value

This study is unique in that it makes predictions about how businesses innovate (behave) based on firm-level characteristics, or macroeconomic structure, without sacrificing information and variance. Furthermore, this study attempts to solve the difficulty of prior empirical research’s single-level analysis and cross-level inference. The research is based on data from the 2019 World Bank regular Enterprise Survey, which includes 18,148 businesses from 38 countries.

中文翻译：

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经济范围内的知识溢出是否决定了企业层面的流程创新

目的

本研究的目的是了解整个经济的溢出效应如何影响公司流程创新。

设计/方法/方法

为了考虑国家差异，目前的研究使用了分层模型。

发现

本研究的结果表明，知识溢出与企业的创新过程相关并影响着企业的创新过程。只有考虑到特定国家差异的二级研究才能揭示这一点。当前的工作使用分层模型来尝试捕获知识溢出。此外，研究结果表明，中型和大型企业以及进行研发 (R&D) 的企业比小型企业和不进行研发的企业更具创造性。此外，女性拥有的企业比男性拥有的企业更有可能创新其流程。

原创性/价值

这项研究的独特之处在于它根据公司层面的特征或宏观经济结构预测企业如何创新（行为），而不牺牲信息和差异。此外，本研究试图解决以往实证研究的单层次分析和跨层次推理的困难。该研究基于 2019 年世界银行定期企业调查的数据，其中包括来自 38 个国家的 18,148 家企业。