sources of knowledge (ISK) as innovation performance drivers. Thus, context-led views such as the innovative milieux approach …, innovation systems literature and the knowledge spillover view have tended to focus on diverse, informal and location …-facilitated sources of knowledge. Meanwhile, firm-led perspectives such as the innovator networks approach and the open innovation model …

It has been shown that firms tend to develop different modes of innovation triggered by the relationship between … different types of knowledge and learning processes underpinning it. This paper aims at identifying different modes of business … innovation; second, relating them to firms' innovative and economic performance; and, analyzing the relationship between the …