question we examine empirically refers to the possibility that an economic crisis could affect innovation performance through … associated with ICT-enabled innovation performance. This is the third research question of this paper. Our study is based on firm … decreased due to the crisis. Further, statistically significant negative relationship between ICT-enabled product innovation and …

Research about users as a source of innovation has been largely restricted to case studies exploring specific … innovation projects at the firm level. This study assesses empirically the relationship between external end users' knowledge as … an input factor to innovation and firms' innovation success. The results strongly support the hypotheses: (i) that …

universities and tested them on Swiss firm data. In a second step, we investigated the impact on innovation performance of …-oriented firms. We further found a positive effect on innovation performance for exploration-oriented firms but not for those that …