Complementarity among Firms Innovation Strategies

Firms’ innovation activity is a complex outcome deriving from the influence of many factors that are interrelated through complementary relationships which might give rise to systemic effects. The relevancy of complementarity among drivers of performances has been underlined by various works, dealing with the relationship between innovation strategies and performances at firm level. The economic literature has shown that the issue of complementarity among firms’ innovation strategies, is relevant to be explored given that management strategies and good practices have increasingly emphasized that competitiveness relies more upon how different innovations are quantitatively and qualitatively combined than upon single investments. Aim of the present paper is just to offer a short layout about the principal characteristics of the empirical economic analysis of complementarity, especially when dealing with firms’ innovation strategies.