sexta-feira, janeiro 24, 2025

Inovação e tamanho

Ontem no FT encontrei uma interessante carta de um leitor, "Here's a different reading of Draghi's merger views":

"Javier Espinoza writes ("Europe's quest for corporate champions", The Big Read, January 22) that "Mario Draghi's landmark report on EU competitiveness last year also called on the authorities to facilitate consolidation as a way of promoting Europe's innovation drive".

My reading of the report is different. On page 299, referring to high-tech sectors, Draghi says that "merger evaluations in this sector must assess how the proposed concentration will affect future innovation potential".

That is, he calls for consideration to be given to the dynamic efficiency effects of mergers. It is well known that although innovation and size are positively correlated, causality goes from the first to the second, and not the other way round. Innovative companies end up growing, larger ones do not innovate more.

Javier Asensio Associate Professor Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain"

Como não recordar o "Dilema da Inovação" de Christense que indica que empresas grandes enfrentam barreiras culturais e estruturais para inovar, sendo mais propensas a investir em incrementos do que em inovação disruptiva.

Recordo também "Firm Size and the Nature of Innovation within Industries: The Case of Process and Product R&D" que sugere que empresas inovadoras têm maior probabilidade de ganhar quota de mercado, o que resulta em crescimento.

Recordo também a 1ª Lei de Pereira da Cruz sobre a concorrência e "Giants invariably descend into suckiness"

 

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