Essay On Barriers To Innovation

The main reason of taking the subject of barriers of innovation is that, take an insight looks to the innovation and understanding deeply. Subsequently, learning the problems of the innovation process facilitate me to overcome constraints and barriers of the innovation process. ’Innovation is the search for and the discovery, development, improvement, adoption and commercialization of new processes, new products and new organizational structures and procedures’’ (Jorde& Teece, 1990, p 76).We cannot imagine the innovation without barriers. While we have removed and solve the barriers, it turns into facilitators. The nature of innovation barriers a barrier to innovation is any factor that influences negatively the innovation process (Piatier, 1984, as cited in Handbook of Economics of Innovation

The size, limited resources in terms of time, money, skilled labor, dependence on the external structure are the main constraints of innovation in a small firm level. In the second part, I investigate different kind of literature, try to identify and classify barriers to innovation and its influence to the process and product innovation. The research mostly based on country specific barriers to innovation. Clarify innovative and non-innovative firm’s specific barriers and the difference between technological frontier firms and non-technological frontier firms. Which barriers are mostly related to developed countries and which ones are more common in the developing countries. The advantage and disadvantage of R&D cooperation and the main barriers for the creation of R&D cooperation. Moreover, barriers to innovation are classified into internal and external barriers and research is based on this approach. The third part is mostly related to barriers to innovation in developed countries. The impacts of common barriers such as shortage of financial, skills and other