outsourcing of R&D activities to contract research organizations and its implications for innovation performance. This paper … findings suggest that technological uncertainty, contractual experience and openness to external knowledge sources motivate the …

Nanomaterials are seen as a key technology for the 21st Century, and much is expected of them in terms of innovation … products. In this context, it seems all the more important for regions to put their own innovation systems in place, and to … conditions and configurations allow a regional innovation system to be competitive in a cutting-edge technology like …

internationalization process. We contribute to this research stream by establishing theoretical links with the emerging open innovation … with regard to the effect of open innovation strategies on internationalization performance. Our results show that both the … breadth and depth of search strategies for external knowledge help young firms to enter international markets. Once they have …

Firms compete increasingly in an open innovation environment. Search strategies for external knowledge become therefore … firms pursue external knowledge source. A consensus exists that resource constrains force firms to balance both dimensions … are built through internal or external R&D activities) and the munificence of its innovation environment. We test these …

refer to personal contacts and hence to the tacit dimension of knowledge transfer. Research is, however, scarce regarding … results confirm a complementary relationship: using both transfer channels contributes to higher innovation performance. The …

novel knowledge and to enhance innovation performance. We develop targeted management recommendations based on these results. …Searching for external knowledge has frequently been characterized as crucial for firm success. However, little is … known about how the direction of search strategies influences innovation performance. In this paper, we argue that firms …

The shift towards more open and interconnected innovation activities has been a major topic of recent academic and … universities, to increase the effectiveness of their innovation activities. Hence, management needs to define search strategies for … valuable knowledge in its environment. In this paper we argue that search strategies have to reflect the heterogeneity of …

Searching for externally available knowledge has been characterized as a vital part of the innovation process. The … availability of such innovation impulses, however, critically depends on the environment a firm is operating in. Little is known on … how institutional infrastructures for innovation differ with respect to the munificence in providing innovation impulses …