firms. Social software can be employed for knowledge management and for external communication enabling access to internal … and external knowledge. Knowledge in turn constitutes one of the main inputs to service innovation. Hence, social software …) and knowledge-intensive service firms, this is the first paper which empirically analyses the question whether the use of …

The concept of knowledge has gained in interest since industrialized economics have induced a shift in importance from … labor, capital and natural resources towards intellectual resources. This study investigates how the management of knowledge … influences the innovation performance of a firm. While former studies mainly focused on knowledge management cycles, we …

The paper tests empirically the role of knowledge stocks to explain the regional distribution of Germany …?s biotechnology founders. We present an unique approach to highlight the role of knowledge spillovers as we differentiate according … high start-up activity in knowledge intensive regions. Group differentiation shows that knowledge stock variables matter …

innovation experience, the results further highlight the important role of knowledge provided by skilled employees and unobserved …

operating in knowledge intensive sectors and start-ups belonging to the remaining ones. This separation is done in order to … interpret the estimation results for start-ups in knowledge intensive sectors in a reliable way. The remaining firms serve as a …

and reach beyond the boundaries of the firm. Accordingly, technology transfer from providers of knowledge intensive … strategic goals. Our stylized theoretical model combines a knowledge production function framework and transaction cost … economics. We hypothesize that the right balance between internal and external knowledge is critical for innovation. The …

leadership and customisation. HCs are more open in their knowledge management, but without compromising control over the new …

With the establishment of the Bundesanstalt für Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht (BaFin) in May 2002 Germany followed the … authority in Germany. Moreover, BaFin?s tasks and structure are discussed. …