skilled graduates in small, know-how-based firms can be instrumental in spurring innovation and upgrading changes in the firms … qualifications that can contribute positively. Graduates with other academic qualifications also hold potential for innovation and …

not just innovation, accumulation or distribution, but their structural compatibility over time. Many different growth …

Innovation may be seen as a process of knowledge creation and the speed and direction of knowledge creation reflects … aiming at promoting innovation and knowledge creation. … knowledge creation in the context of a learning economy. An important issue is to what extent direct and indirect participation …

performance of innovation studies units with business and management schools in the UK. Using various mappings and metrics, this … study shows that: (i) innovation studies units are consistently more interdisciplinary than business and management schools …

- illustrates how sourcing of consumer knowledge has enabled the firm to improve product design. Two conditions favor the results … firms can obtain from consumer’s knowledge. First, is firm’s ability to exploit new opportunities of information and … to initiate a mode of organization by which the consumers are guided and motivated to reveal merely relevant knowledge. …

partners’ relational research capacity, i.e. their ability to evaluate, integrate, process and exploit knowledge flows …

agents, the innovation activities, and the social management technology, including work process organization and the social …? How do knowledge transmission processes manifest themselves within the “network”? What indicators are useful for the …

competition is a primary driving force behind organisational change and technical innovation. Firms are divided into three groups …