activities with universities compared to larger firms. -- Innovation ; Knowledge and Technology Transfer ; Specialization …This paper investigates the relationship between technology specialization and innovation performance of firms … emphasizing technology transfer activities with universities as an important knowledge source in order to attenuate the …

were exploration-oriented. -- knowledge exploration ; knowledge exploitation ; innovation … respect to the relative importance of possible determinants of exploration and exploitation of knowledge in collaboration with … universities and tested them on Swiss firm data. In a second step, we investigated the impact on innovation performance of …