One key question for growing companies is how to maintain a continuous flow of innovations. This article examines the way in which existing writings view the extension between innovations. It proposes a cognitive grid as a support for innovation. The existing literature either lays out a primacy...

IT consulting and engineering firms generally develop strategic knowledge for their clients based on their own competences in various business methods and processes. Knowledge and competences can be improved through collaborative research projects and further leveraged for their own strategic...

Chesbrough's work on open innovation provides a theoretical framework to understand how firms can access external knowledge in order to support their R&D processes. The author defines open innovation as a paradigm that assumes that firms can and should use both external and internal ideas and...