on innovation performance. Networking and boundary-spanning activities are also increasingly recognised as important … contributors to innovation success. In this article we attempt to discover whether these factors are associated: in particular, is … there any link between plant location, agglomeration effects and the extent of outsourcing in the innovation process? Using …

existence of complementarities in the use of external networking between stages of the innovation process in a sample of UK and … combination of innovation activities in which to implement external networking. Broadly, there is more evidence of …