impact of two such external knowledge acquisition strategies, "buy" and "cooperate", on firm's product innovation performance …There is growing evidence that firms increasingly adopt open innovation practices. In this paper we investigate the … while both "buy" and "cooperate" have a positive effect on innovation, there is little statistical evidence that using them …

This paper compares the determinants and the effects of innovation cooperation on innovation performance at firm level …. In a third step we investigate the impact of all four categories of cooperation on innovation performance. -- national … innovation cooperation ; international innovation cooperation ; innovation performance …

were exploration-oriented. -- knowledge exploration ; knowledge exploitation ; innovation … 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 second step, we investigated the impact on innovation performance of …

das betriebsinterne Wissenskapital erhöht, sondern auch durch die generelle Verfügbarkeit von Wissen ("Wissens … der Unternehmen und verbessern die Nutzung von externem Wissen. Massnahmen, die die Kontakte zu anderen Firmen bzw. zu den …