'''Pavitt's Taxonomy''' categorizes mostly large industrial firms along trajectories of technological change according to sources of technology, requirements of the users, and appropriability regime (Pavitt 1984). The [[Taxonomy (general)|taxonomy]] aims to classify innovation modes according to different sectoral groups and the flow of knowledge between such groups. It was first proposed by [[Science Policy Research Unit]] (SPRU) researcher [[Keith Pavitt]] at the [[University of Sussex]] and has since been applied in [[innovation]] research to describe and categorize industries and the firms therein ([[Daniele Archibugi|Archibugi]] 2001). According to Castellacci (2008), "Pavitt's model of the linkages between science-based, specialized suppliers, scale-intensive and supplier-dominated industries provides a stylized and powerful description of the core set of industrial sectors that sustained the growth of advanced economies during the Fordist age."
== Pavitt's Taxonomy ==
Pavitt's taxonomy consists of four categories of industrial firms:
# '''Supplier-dominated''': includes firms from mostly traditional manufacturing such as textiles and agriculture which rely on sources of innovation external to the firm. # '''Scale-intensive''': characterized by mainly large firms producing basic materials and [[consumer durables]], e.g. automotive sector. Sources of innovation may be both internal and external to the firm with a medium-level of appropriability. # '''Specialized suppliers''': smaller, more specialized firms producing technology to be sold into other firms, e.g. specialized machinery production and high-tech instruments. There is a high level of appropriability due to the tacit nature of the knowledge. # '''Science-based''': [[high-tech firm]]s which rely on R&D from both in-house sources and university research, including industries such as [[pharmaceuticals]] and [[electronics]]. Firms in this sector develop new products or processes and have a high degree of appropriability from [[patent]]s, secrecy, and tacit [[know-how]].
== See also ==
* [[Innovation]] * [[Innovation system]]
== References == {{Reflist}} *{{cite journal | doi = 10.1080/10438590100000016 | last = Archibugi | author-link = Daniele Archibugi | first = D. | year = 2001 | title = Pavitt's Taxonomy Sixteen Years on: A Review Article | journal = Econ. Innov. New Techn. | volume = 10 | issue = 5 | pages = 415–425 }} *{{cite journal | doi = 10.1016/j.respol.2008.03.011 | last = Castellacci | first = F. | year = 2008 | title = Technological paradigms, regimes and trajectories: Manufacturing and service industries in a new taxonomy of sectoral patterns of innovation | journal = Research Policy | volume = 37 | issue = 6–7 | pages = 978–994 | url = https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/26408/1/MPRA_paper_26408.pdf }} *{{cite journal | last = Pavitt | first = K. | year = 1984 | title = Sectoral patterns of technical change: towards a taxonomy and a theory | journal = Research Policy | volume = 13 | issue = 6 | pages = 343–373 | doi=10.1016/0048-7333(84)90018-0 }}
== Further reading ==
*{{cite book | last = | first = | year = 2003 | title = The Oxford Handbook of Innovation | editor = Fagerberg, J. |editor2=Mowery, D. |editor3=Nelson, R. | publisher = Oxford University Press | location = Oxford | pages = | chapter = }}
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