Abstract
This paper develops a notion of the service regime and uses this service regime to empirically reconsider the sectoral patterns of innovation in Miozzo and Soete service taxonomy. Taking a synthesis approach to service innovation, this paper develops the service regime derived from the technological regime and incorporating service trajectory, and non-legal appropriable mechanisms into the framework. Four research hypotheses are proposed to elaborate the sectoral patterns of innovation in four service sectors. A dataset of 5,711 service firms is collected from the Taiwan Innovation Survey 2004-2006. The results indicate that the service regime across four service sectors is not so obviously sector-specific than the paper expects. This paper confirms that the sectoral patterns of innovation in service are generally still equivocal, resulting from their loosely coupled systems in nature. The paper concludes that the service regime provides a novel framework to re-examine service innovation