The importance of knowledge and innovation in modern economies justifies the in-creasing interest that scholars are … taking in studying knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS). The objective of this paper is to track the evolution of the … issues are addressed: (1) how KIBS are defined in the litera-ture; (2) how KIBS have been investigated empirically by …

client-side innovation. The aim of this paper is to contribute to resolving an empirical puzzle arising from the prior … economics. We hypothesize that the right balance between internal and external knowledge is critical for innovation. The … innovation. For product innovation we find a hump-shape. …

organizations. This study aims to evidence the role played by knowledge intensive businesses services (KIBS) today and to highlight … development is not a simple process, and to recognize the specific characteristics of KIBS and linking them within a specific …

and innovation. KIBS are generally understood as depending, driving and thriving on knowledge exchanges and therefore … paper investigates how the innovation performance and processes of KIBS firms are related to their distance from the nearest …Knowledge Intensive Business Services (KIBS) are widely perceived as being important drivers of technological progress …

(KIBS) and overall regional employment growth using German labour-market data for the period 1999-2012. Adopting a recently … KIBS and other sectors are examined including various time lags. One main finding holds that although regional growth has a … negative short-term effect on KIBS, KIBS growth has a long-term positive effect on the whole regional economy. This result …

Research on territorial innovation systems has traditionally put a very strong emphasis on intra-economy collaborative … based on localized knowledge assets, and as platforms for growth and internationalization. The locus of innovation is … therefore shifting away from individual firms, towards territorial economies and the distributed innovation networks by which …

In the context of globalization, international processes do affect the national innovation system (NIS), increasing the … use of scientific, technological, and innovation-internal and external-capabilities. The point of departure is the concept … of innovation, which was developed for the industrial revolution where products and technological processes are …

(KIBS) and overall regional employment growth using German labour-market data for the period 1999-2012. Adopting a recently … KIBS and other sectors are examined including various time lags. One main finding holds that although regional growth has a … negative short-term effect on KIBS, KIBS growth has a long-term positive effect on the whole regional economy. This result …

and innovation. KIBS are generally understood as depending, driving and thriving on knowledge exchanges and therefore … paper investigates how the innovation performance and processes of KIBS firms are related to their distance from the nearest …Knowledge Intensive Business Services (KIBS) are widely perceived as being important drivers of technological progress …

The paper aims at estimating the innovation impact of the vertical integration of knowledge intensive business services … (KIBS) into manufacturing. Referring to the vertically integrated sectors of an economy allows innovative knowledge, which … is transferred directly and indirectly from KIBS to manufacturing in an embodied way, to be measured. Its impact on …