Service Regime and Service Taxonomy: Evidence from the Taiwan Community Innovation Survey

摘要

This paper develops a notion of the service regime and uses this service regime to empirically reconsiderrnthe sectoral patterns of innovation in Miozzo and Soete service taxonomy. Taking a synthesis approach tornservice innovation, this paper develops the service regime derived from the technological regime andrnincorporating service trajectory, and non-legal appropriable mechanisms into the framework. Four researchrnhypotheses are proposed to elaborate the sectoral patterns of innovation in four service sectors. A dataset ofrn5,711 service firms is collected from the Taiwan Innovation Survey 2004-2006. The results indicate that thernservice regime across four service sectors is not so obviously sector-specific than the paper expects. This paperrnconfirms that the sectoral patterns of innovation in service are generally still equivocal, resulting from theirrnloosely coupled systems in nature. The paper concludes that the service regime provides a novel framework tornre-examine service innovation.