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A Systems View Across Time and Space

Table 2 Variable description

From: User communities: from nice-to-have to must-have

Variable

Description

Measurement

INNOV(1)

Having performed at least one type of innovation

Binary

PROD_I(2)

Having performed product innovation

Binary

PROC_I(3)

Having performed process innovation

Binary

ORG_I(4)

Having performed organizational innovation

Binary

MARK_I(5)

Having performed marketing innovation

Binary

INTER_IND(6)

Interaction with Industry

Binary

INTER_ACAD(7)

Interaction with Academia

Binary

INTER_GOV(8)*

Interaction with government

Binary

INTER_COMM(9)

Interaction with user community

Binary

H_CAP(10)

Human capital intensity

Scale (1 = “0%”; 2 = “ ≥ 1% to < 5%”; 3 = “ ≥ 5% to < 10%”; 4 = “ ≥ 10% to < 25%”; 5 =“ ≥ 25% to < 50%”; 6 = “ ≥ 50% to < 75%”; 7 = “ ≥ 75%”)

EXP(11)

Exporting company

Binary

SIZE(12)

Nr. of employees

Scale (1 = small; 2 = medium; 3 = large)

TECH(13)

Technological regime, according to Costa et al. (2021)

Scale (1 = supplier dominated; 2 = scale intensive; 3 = specialized supplier; 4 = science-based)

  1. *Measured by being a beneficiary of public funding