Purpose: This paper aims to investigate how the implementation of the inter-cooperation principle among Spanish machine-tool cooperatives helps them to coopete–collaborate with competitors, in their innovation and internationalization processes and achieve collaborative advantages....

Purpose This paper aims to discover the key elements for generating and protecting innovations based on the customer-supplier relationship in industrial sectors. Design/methodology/approach This exploratory qualitative study was performed using semi-structured interviews with chief executive...

Purpose – This paper aims to analyze the impact of three types of embedded ties, namely, specialized complementary resources, idiosyncratic investments and knowledge sharing, on the innovation capacity of firms. It also examines the particularities of the machine-tool industry....

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to determine to what extent small sized and periphery-located firms compensate the comparative disadvantages of big centrally located firms, through patent ownership agreements with other agents, notably research institutes. Design/methodology/approach: The...