organizational, production, industrial and innovation unit. Theoretical correlations between outsourcing decisions and outsourcing …’s resources and competences to eventually promote technological innovation seems more relevant than searching for lower costs by …

for the sample firms in the period 1984-1996 and for each class calculated the sample firms’ share in world patent …

This study investigates how the selection environment and modularity affect innovation in private infrastructure … innovations. An innovation succeeds contingent upon the capability of the stakeholder groups to develop collectively a plan to … finance and implement the innovation, which reconciles subjective individual assessments. Innovations can be particularly hard …

skilled graduates in small, know-how-based firms can be instrumental in spurring innovation and upgrading changes in the firms … qualifications that can contribute positively. Graduates with other academic qualifications also hold potential for innovation and …

attention as a strategic tool to fulfill “indigenous innovation”, and finally becomes part of national science and technology …

in technological innovation and organisational learning. This paper argues that the extent to which tacit knowledge … coherent framework. It holds promise for interpreting and understanding the sources of differences in learning and innovation …

that both differences in endowments and returns to innovation and skilled labor significantly contribute to the … productivity gap between small and large firms. In addition, it is observed that the contribution of innovation to this gap is …

domestic markets is positive but when the level of competition is high incentives to invest in innovation and productivity … in internal markets in order to increase the incentives for manufacturing firms to invest in innovation and productivity …

, innovation and userproducer interaction in the KIBS sector, functional integration and spatial proximity are particularly …