{"id":2343,"date":"2014-05-19T11:44:15","date_gmt":"2014-05-19T11:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.enterpriseresearch.ac.uk\/?post_type=blog&#038;p=2343"},"modified":"2016-03-11T13:27:15","modified_gmt":"2016-03-11T13:27:15","slug":"innovation-imitation-boosts-growth-recession-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.enterpriseresearch.ac.uk\/innovation-imitation-boosts-growth-recession-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Innovation or Imitation: Which boosts growth in recession?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Drawing on data from UK innovation surveys,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.enterpriseresearch.ac.uk\/people\/professor-stephen-roper-3\/\">Professor\u00a0Stephen Roper<\/a>, ERC Director, identifies some key trends. The proportion of\u00a0innovative firms in the UK has grown rapidly in recent years, with the recession\u00a0having a significant negative effect. Innovative firms grew more than twice as fast as\u00a0imitators during the recession, however, suggesting innovation is a better growth\u00a0strategy than imitation in difficult market conditions.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.enterpriseresearch.ac.uk\/publications\/innovation-imitation\/\">Find out more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Innovation or Imitation: Which boosts growth in recession?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":2348,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enterpriseresearch.ac.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2343"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enterpriseresearch.ac.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enterpriseresearch.ac.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enterpriseresearch.ac.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enterpriseresearch.ac.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2343"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.enterpriseresearch.ac.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21566,"href":"https:\/\/www.enterpriseresearch.ac.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2343\/revisions\/21566"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enterpriseresearch.ac.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enterpriseresearch.ac.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enterpriseresearch.ac.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enterpriseresearch.ac.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}