Innovation is the key for an organization to achieve sustainable development. Open innovation which emphasizes the integration of internal and external resources in an organization has brought about a new perspective in technological developments. In order to promote and ensure the performance...

The process of value creation out of the acquisition, transfer and exploitation of scientific knowledge has become a major challenge for developed economies. Knowledge institutions like universities and R%D centres are important actors in this context. This paper offers a novel contribution to...

The paper elaborates and tests two hypotheses. First, that knowledge is not a homogeneous activity, but rather a bundle of highly differentiated disciplines that have different characteristics, both in terms of generation and exploitation, that bear a differentiated impact on economic growth....

In a first step, we developed based on existing theoretical and empirical literature a series of hypotheses with respect to the relative importance of possible determinants of exploration and exploitation of knowledge in collaboration with universities and tested them on Swiss firm data. In a...

In global markets, firms should be connected to a plurality of external actors to acquire knowledge for sustainable competitive advantage. Over the last decade, knowledge management scholars have highlighted the opportunity to acquire a wide spectrum of knowledge from clients, not limited to...

We provide new, concise characterizations of the Banzhaf value on a fixed player set employing just the standard dummy player property and one of the collusion properties suggested by Haller (Int J Game Theory 23:261–281, <CitationRef CitationID="CR8">1994</CitationRef>) and Malawski (Int J Game Theory 31:47–67, <CitationRef CitationID="CR11">2002</CitationRef>). Within these...</citationref></citationref>