innovation in tire manufacturing, we study the joint dynamics of technical and organizational change during the transition from …

In this paper we investigate the relationship between location patterns, innovation processes and industrial clusters … literature on spatially defined clusters. Our arguments show that the transactions costs approach and the innovation and …

This paper analyses the effect of financial, knowledge, demand, market structure and regulation barriers to innovation … on firms’ economic performance. It contributes to the literature on barriers to innovation in a two-fold way. First, it … disentangles the mediated effect of obstacles, via product, process and organisational innovation, on labour productivity. Second …

This paper explores the sources of ideas for innovation in engineering design. The paper shows that engineering … innovation in project-based firms, outlining patterns of innovation in firms that survive on the basis of their success in …