findings emphasize the role of a firms absorptive capacity and its ICT competence in data-based innovation. It seems that … customer involvement in innovation process positively relates to the production of new data-based products and services. The … reported empirical findings further indicate that data-based product and service innovation tends to be rather strongly demand-driven. …

innovation and finds that they are qualitatively different from those found in earlier studies of more generally representative …, only the largest firms were likely to identify patents as the most important method of appropriating innovation returns … regarding the functioning of the existing systems of intellectual property rights when key policy goals include innovation by …

Our study aims at shedding light on the organizational mechanisms that produce differences in the firmsŽ innovation … fruitful for innovation. There are vast differences in the organizational practices leading to more innovation both between the … small and large firms, and between the firms that are functioning in high- and low-tech industries. While innovation in the …

-based innovation generated for both firm’s own and market needs, the firm’s ICT-specific absorptive capacity matters more than its … use selective ICT outsourcing strategy, 2) they tend to involve more internal units closely to innovation activities and 3 … solutions for their own needs balance their relatively open innovation strategy with the close in-house innovation collaboration …

innovation environments for firms and research centres. This study shows that those countries who invest wisely to develop their … innovation environment will be successful in high technology export markets. In recent years, Finnish high technology exports …