Developing a Framework Linking Organizational Creativity Climate, Knowledge Acquisition, and R&D Performance

  • Authors

    • Cheng Ling Tan
    • Aizzat Mohd Nasurdin
    • Sook Fern Yeo
    2018-08-08
    https://doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v7i3.21.17172
  • R&D Performance, Knowledge Acquisition, Organizational Creative Climate

  • Abstract

    R&D is the key for the knowledge-intensive and high value-added innovations in the firms. To expedite R&D activities, the Malaysian government increased its R&D expenditure to motivate R&D engineers to innovate, to engage actively in the commercialization of patents and the filing of intellectual property. This study aims to identify environmental factors that can intensify the R&D performance and increase the potential for innovations to be commercialized. Extensive literature review indicated that organizational creative climate influences R&D performance. Hence, organizational creative climate has been proposed as a significant predictor of R&D performance. However, inconsistent findings have been reported by various researchers. Therefore, knowledge acquisition capability is added as an intervening variable that can influence the relationship between organizational creative climate and R&D performance. To the researcher’s knowledge, no attempt has been made to integrate the organizational creative climate with knowledge acquisition and R&D performance. It is hoped that this study will result in a better understanding of the factors that can influence R&D performance, particularly among medical devices manufacturers.

     

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    Ling Tan, C., Mohd Nasurdin, A., & Fern Yeo, S. (2018). Developing a Framework Linking Organizational Creativity Climate, Knowledge Acquisition, and R&D Performance. International Journal of Engineering & Technology, 7(3.21), 270-273. https://doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v7i3.21.17172

    Received date: 2018-08-08

    Accepted date: 2018-08-08

    Published date: 2018-08-08