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Reviving demand-pull perspectives: The effect of demand uncertainty and stagnancy on R&D strategy Garcia-Quevedo, Jose Pellegrino, Gabriele Savona, Maria Gestió de la innovació Recerca industrial Oferta i demanda Innovation management Industrial research Supply and demand This paper looks at the effects of demand uncertainty and stagnancy on firms' decisions to engage in R&D activities and the amount of financial effort devoted to these. The paper provides a number of contributions to the innovation literature: first, it adds to the revived debate on demand-pull perspectives in innovation studies by examining demand-related (lack of) incentives to invest in innovation. Second, it complements the literature on barriers to innovation by focusing on demand-related obstacles rather than the more frequently explored financial barriers. Third, it analyses whether experiencing demand barriers is a sector-specific feature. Firms active in high- or low-tech manufacturing or in knowledge-intensive or low-tech services might be more or less dependent on demand conditions when deciding to perform RΔ ... 2017-07-12T06:50:36Z 2018-09-27T05:10:21Z 2016-09-27 2017-07-12T06:50:37Z info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion Versió postprint del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.1093/cje/bew042 Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2016, vol. 41, num. 4, p. 1087-1122 https://doi.org/10.1093/cje/bew042 info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/649186/EU//ISIGrowth (c) García, José, 1963- et al., 2016 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Oxford University Press Articles publicats en revistes (Economia)