| This research examines how (i) company type and (ii) the intelligence information that small companies use to make decisions about innovation, affect their innovation performance. This research is exploratory and contributes to efforts of National Research Council Canada's Industrial Research Assistance Program (IRAP) to build a national competitive intelligence capability. The results obtained from examining data for 45 small new technology-based companies, specialized suppliers, and service companies suggest that: (i) the total number of intelligence information topics and the number of competitor related topics that IRAP funded companies use to make decisions about innovation are not related to the companies' innovation performance; (ii) the number of industry-related topics is positively related to specialized suppliers' new process innovation performance; (iii) the number of customer-related topics is positively related to new technology-based companies' new process innovation performance, and (iv) the number of company-related topics is positively related to new technology-based companies' new service innovation performance. |
