Relational Innovation Analysis: Complementarity and Substitution
Gazi Kitabevi, Ankara, 2026
- Yayın Türü: Kitap / Araştırma Kitabı
- Basım Tarihi: 2026
- Yayınevi: Gazi Kitabevi
- Basıldığı Şehir: Ankara
- Hatay Mustafa Kemal Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet
Özet
This book is built around a question that follows naturally from the analysis of factor contributions: how does the relation between two factors change what one of them contributes?
Many findings in innovation research point in this direction. Knowledge may contribute differently depending on the Human Capital available to absorb and use it. Financial Capital may have different effects depending on the capabilities and opportunities with which it is combined. Technology may produce different outcomes depending on organizational, managerial, institutional, or other conditions. Such findings are often examined separately. Relational Analysis asks what can be learned when the relation itself is made an explicit part of the analysis of factor contribution.
I first set out this approach in an earlier study on economic growth. The present book applies it to Innovation and carries the analysis further in that setting. Innovation provides a rich field for this purpose because its realization depends on contributions from different factor families whose effects are rarely independent of one another.
The book treats two relations: Complementarity and Substitution. From these relations it develops a set of analytical consequences concerning how factor contributions may change across configurations, conditions, places, periods, and uses. The purpose is not simply to identify whether factors are related, but to examine what those relations imply for the contribution that a focal factor can make to Innovation.
My aim has been to present the argument as clearly as possible while keeping the distinction between factors, their functions, their relations, and their contributions explicit throughout. I hope that the framework offered here provides a useful way of asking questions that can be carried into empirical research, policy analysis, and management as well as further theoretical work.