Arvanitis, Spyros; Wörter, Martin; Mohnen, Pierre; … - KOF Swiss Economic Institute, Department of Management, … - 2013
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 …
