Managerial competencies and organizational capabilities in striving for continuous innovation

Organisations are being told they need to improve their dynamic capabilities and increase their capacity to grow in an increasingly dynamic environment. Knowledge-based industries are increasingly competing on the basis of their knowledge resources. R&D and new product development activities are dependent on knowledge-based resources. This paper draws together work on learning behaviours, capabilities and capacities and shows how these can be linked to a competitive position for knowledge-based activities. Using empirical data collected for a European-Australian study on continuous innovation in new product development, this research demonstrates how bundles of learning behaviours create organisational capabilities.