firms follow a knowledge exploiting strategy, establishing their whole innovation value chain to developing Asian countries. … interviews, we researched whether companies follow a knowledge augmenting or knowledge sourcing strategy. The results show a …

external knowledge acquisition are complementary innovation activities, but that the degree of complementarity is sensitive to … existence of complementarity. We use our empirical methodology to analyze complementarity between innovation activities …: internal research and development (R& D) and external knowledge acquisition. Our results suggest that internal R& D and …

Successful innovation depends on the development and integration of new knowledge in the innovation process. In order … to innovate successfully, the firm will combine different innovation activities. In addition to doing own research and … development, firms typically are engaged in the acquisition of knowledge on the technology market and cooperate actively in R …

Research on the linkages between family firms, innovation and change is scant and lacking empirical investigation. In … capacity of family businesses and the degree and manner to which innovation can lead to change or even be the change needed in … the context of strategic reorientation. The research investigates innovation with reference to the resource perspective …