To what extent is the likelihood that a Technology-Based Firm - TBF - turns into a Technology-Based and Highly Innovative Firm - TB&InnF - is influenced by technical capabilities or managerial capabilities and education background? We analyse this question using a novel data panel assembled for...

This article examines the nexus between market-sensing capability, knowledge creation, strategic entrepreneurial-orientation and innovation in small and medium sized enterprises (SME). Data was garnered from (n=255) SMEs operating in Jordan and a covariance-based structural equation modelling...

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Taiwan have made undeniable contributions to the rapid economic development of Taiwan over the last decades. In Taiwan's economic system, over 90% of businesses are SMEs. However, with the increasingly severe problems of population aging, labor...

Open innovation has rendered increased interest both in practice and research, and has expanded from dyadic transfers of ideas, to ecosystem levels. Knowledge is at the heart of open innovation, and this paper describes and discusses knowledge-transfer linkages for open innovation. It does so...

The productivity paradox has sparked a great deal of research during the past three decades. Unfortunately, neither the results of empirical research nor the theoretical explanations for the paradox provide a convincing answer to whether investments in information and communication technology...

The increasing complexity of products and services, rapidly changing market demands, or growing pressure from various societal groups are trends that require companies to enact new practices to remain competitive. The external search for information and its integration in the context of open...

In the European Union and in Hungary, the food and beverage industry is the leading manufacturing one. By contrast, food industry is seen less innovative compared to other branches of the economy, especially in the European Union. The level of the R&D spending is very low in the Hungarian food...

This study examines the emerging organizational concept of Crowdsourcing where new idea submissions from outside the firm's boundaries are obtained, selected, evaluated, coded, and integrated into the organization. This research is developed through a case study of a large European...

In this paper, we explain the analytics of a particular type of mechanism of open innovation (OI), namely the management of non-pecuniary exchange of information, and address the relationship between intellectual property rights (IPRs), particularly patent rights, and OI using a static...

The purpose of this special issue is to assemble high quality papers that deepen and boost understanding the role of open innovation and knowledge on business ecosystems development. This special issue includes ten papers specific related to the special issue topic: Open Innovation and Knowledge...