We investigate whether appointing a middle management level affects startups’ innovation performance. Additional … it improves the success rates from recombining existing knowledge as well as managing R&D personnel. In addition, we …

We investigate whether appointing a middle management level affects startups' innovation performance. Additional … it improves the success rates from recombining existing knowledge as well as managing R&D personnel. In addition, we …

Searching for externally available knowledge has been characterized as a vital part of the innovation process. The … availability of such innovation impulses, however, critically depends on the environment a firm is operating in. Little is known on … how institutional infrastructures for innovation differ with respect to the munificence in providing innovation impulses …

The shift towards more open and interconnected innovation activities has been a major topic of recent academic and … universities, to increase the effectiveness of their innovation activities. Hence, management needs to define search strategies for … valuable knowledge in its environment. In this paper we argue that search strategies have to reflect the heterogeneity of …