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Table 11
.
1
Collaboration and performance of UK ICT i rms - key indicators
Selected
performance
indicators
All
respondents
Collab-
orators
Non-
collaborators
Collab-
orators
Non-
collaborators
Cluster
Non-
cluster
Cluster
Non-
cluster
Mean
employment
105
180
40
57
53
19
41
Employment
increase
2000-03
36%
40%
34%
45%
41%
39%
39%
New products/
services
2000-03
80%
88%
73%
89%
87%
74%
69%
Patents 2000-
03 +/−
0%
2%
−2%
6%
4%
−3%
0%
Turnover
increase
2000-03
61%
69%
55%
70%
76%
49%
70%
Mean R&D
expenditure/
turnover
16%
17%
14%
19%
13%
10%
11%
R&D
expenditure
increase
2000-03
31%
32%
30%
39%
16%
22%
33%
Notes:
1.
Respondents to the questions on collaboration/non-collaboration were fewer and had a smaller mean
than all collaborators. Columns 5-8 have
N
= 55, 40, 71 and 44 respectively.
2.
The few large multi-plant i rms in the sample frequently reported collaboration with ai liates or sister
plants, which clearly fell outside the project's dei ned interest in inter-organisational and inter-i rm
collaboration and cooperation. Hence they are excluded from Table 11.1.
Source:
CASS ICT Collective Learning Survey.
and their cluster/non-cluster location. Analysis was undertaken with respect to measures
of i rm performance, namely employment change, turnover change, research and devel-
opment expenditure change, and innovation, all between 2000 and 2003. In this respect,
levels of innovation were measured by asking i rms about the number of new products/
service and changes to products/services in the past three years from survey time, the
number of patents announced, R&D activities and the i rms' capacity to introduce new
products/services compared to competitors.
Table 11.1 shows that in all economic performance, collaborating UK ICT i rms'
mean performance is generally better than the mean scores in the respondent group as
a whole, consisting of both collaborators and non-collaborators. Thus collaborators
have superior performance regarding market share, capacity to introduce new products
and services, higher R&D as a share of turnover in 2003, more employees per i rm and
greater turnover, showing a higher share of i rms that recorded an increase in both
