Understanding innovation in creative industries: knowledge bases and innovation performance in art restoration organisations

Autoría
Blanca de Miguel Molina, José-Luis Hervás-Oliver, Rafael Boix Domenech

Resumen
This paper studies innovation in the creative industry of art restoration, which is characterised by an intensive use of symbolic knowledge. Using the resource-based view of the firm as a theoretical framework, this study adapts Community Innovation Survey (CIS) methodology to this industry, creating and exploiting a unique dataset from the restoration departments of museums in 43 countries on 5 continents. The results suggest that the type and composition of the knowledge bases in play influence a department’s absorptive capacity to access external information sources and thereby impact innovative outcomes. The article contributes to innovation literature by capturing innovation processes in a symbolic-based industry.

Tipo de documento: Artículo

Fecha de publicación: 2019

Título de la revista: Innovation: Organization and Management

Volumen y número: 21(3)

Páginas: 421–442

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14479338.2018.1562300

URL: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14479338.2018.1562300