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 … were exploration-oriented. -- knowledge exploration ; knowledge exploitation ; innovation …

cooperation. We mainly hypothesize that university cooperation corresponds to product innovation and hence quality competition … receptive for horizontal cooperation. In sum these findings advance our understanding of the relationship between innovation and … competition policy. -- innovation cooperation ; university cooperation ; horizontal cooperation ; number of competitors ; price …

There is growing evidence that firms increasingly adopt open innovation practices. In this paper we investigate the … impact of two such external knowledge acquisition strategies, "buy" and "cooperate", on firm's product innovation performance … while both "buy" and "cooperate" have a positive effect on innovation, there is little statistical evidence that using them …