KNOWLEDGE-INTENSIVE BUSINESS SERVICES

KIBS publications and presentations

Stumbled-upon these THREE items...

FIRST:

Determinants of Innovative Activity in Newly Founded Knowledge Intensive
Business Service Firms
by Andreas Koch & Harald Strotmann
Abstract
...."Innovative activity is performed to a considerable extent in the service sector, namely within the socalled knowledge intensive business services (KIBS). Nevertheless, little is known about the determinants of innovative activity in these firms. In the present paper, some of these determinants are examined on the basis of a recently created dataset of 547 newly founded German firms (KIBS Foundation
Survey 2003). The results show that the access to knowledge through cooperation and networking is an important factor determining innovative activity in the KIBS sector, whereas, surprisingly, neither managerial characteristics nor spatial proximity have general influence."

SECOND :
Tracking the Transformation

set of presentations ~
David Bach: Industry Self-Regulation in the Information Society
Tero Erkkilä: The role of the public sector in the creation of knowledge. An examination of the Finnish case.
Matti Kalliokoski: Information Society models within the EU
Martin Kenney: Lift and Shift?: Moving the Back Office to India
Claudia Loebbecke and Michael Staudinger: Video Content Services as a Transforming Industry: Evolving Infrastructures and Business Models
Richard Nash: A EuroISPA Perspective on Today’s Policy, Business and Governance Issues
Niels Christian Nielsen: Knowledge Processes in the New Economy
Maj Cecilie Nielsen and Niels Christian Nielsen: Unimerco – knowledge, relations, and ownership (case study)
Christopher Palmberg:The economics of strategic R&D alliances – A review with focus on the ICT sector
Petri Rouvinen:Productivity effects of ICT
Ville Siivonen and Tuomo Martikainen: Service Innovation in New Economy: The Role of Networks, KIBS & ICT
Rikard Stankiewicz: Digitalization-induced evolution of innovation systems: pharmaceuticals and biotechnology


NUMBER THREE

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Knowledge-intensive Services and Competitiveness of the Forest Cluster:
The Case of Finland
by Esa Viitamo
Contents include:
2 INDUSTRIAL DYNAMICS
3 THE ROLE OF SERVICES ― STATISTICAL EVIDENCE
4 COMPETITIVENESS ANALYSIS
5 CONCLUSIONS AND DISCUSSION

Here's Jim Spohrer's service engineering blog - its got many links to other interesting blogs, plus lots of discussion of service science: SSME blog

GGDC Workingpapers

Many papers here on productivity issues, including several on EU/US divergences - how far related to IT, to services, how far applies to services, and the like. Much to download.

The Europa page on Competitiveness data and studies.
Several of the Competitiveness Reports have good material on services - 2000 on services trade and use of business services; 2002 on services productivity; 2004 on public services.
There are other good sources, including a 2005 study with many sector indicators that can be used to get a feel for services activities.

The Systems of Innovation Research Program's Home Page There's a paper here on KIBS in Sweden (through the lens of CIS2) at http://www.tema.liu.se/tema-t/sirp/pdf/hommen&nahlinder.pdf and Johnanna Nahlinder's PhD thesis on KIBS should be available here soon.

emcc - Knowledge-intensive business services - policies, issues and the future third of the EMCC papers on KIBS.

emcc - Knowledge-intensive business services: Trends and scenarios: "Knowledge-intensive business services: Trends and scenarios" second of three EMCC papers on KIBS now online.