European countries (Germany, Belgium and Portugal): shopfloor and production lines, design and management and the local inter …

The paper focuses on the territorial shaping of knowledge dynamics as one of the driving forces for innovation … ongoing restructuring of global value chains and the changes in the organization of innovation 'combinatorial knowledge … dynamics' gain a more prominent role in innovation. Firms are facing an increasing need to combine heterogeneous knowledge …

the extent to which different stocks and combinations of knowledge might explain such heterogeneity in innovative efforts … and positioning in the landscape. Our results suggest that a stock of ''brown'' knowledge closely related to ''green …'' knowledge proves to be valuable for firm's success in each trajectory. Moreover, firms with a broad array of different knowledge …