Knowledge-based approaches to the firm offer valuable insights into some of the central issues of governance and … problem of economic organization is reconciling efficiency in knowledge development with efficiency in knowledge application …. The paper extends the knowledge-based view of the firm and knowledge integration approach to organizational capability …

uncertainty and innovation-driven competition among firms. In this work we survey the state-of-the-art in the analysis of such … evolutionary processes. We start by asking whether there are some invariances in the knowledge structure and in the ways … technological knowledge accumulates and, together, what distinguishes different fields and different periods of technological …

compare the performance of organisational forms (M-form and U-form) in implementing changes such as innovation and reform. In … more innovation and reform. The theory is illustrated by the organisational differences between China and the former Soviet …

hub firm size. Design/methodology/approach - Seven case studies were carried out: six innovation networks in which SMEs …' qualitative empirical analysis of seven innovation projects showed that: the sharing of benefits and the guarantees that are … - Results have important implications for the management of innovation networks which are increasingly important for the …

radical innovation, human agents create knowledge surrogates and project acts in the future perfect tense. Through a process …This paper discusses the nature of innovation, the innovation process and its associated coordination problems in the … subjectivist perspective. It argues that innovation, when viewed in the first person perspective, is not a homogeneous concept …

The networked enterprise simultaneously seeks to develop new knowledge in order to compete on international markets … thanks to its innovation capacity and to improve its allocation of resources, notably by reducing its production and … open innovation. It is, thus, associated to the more traditional ‘incentive/defensive’ function of IPRs, which aims at …