This paper explores the impact of management characteristics and patterns of collaboration on a firmÕs innovation performance in transforming innovation resources into commercially successful outputs. These questions are investigated using a recent firm level survey database for 465 innovative...

The different role of intra- and inter-national university-industry collaboration in industrial innovation in emerging economies are investigated. Based on a national firm-level survey database from China, it finds that collaboration with domestic universities have played a significant role in...

This study explores the patterns of growth, acquisition and failure amongst a sample of UK small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) over the period 1997-2002 using the 1997 panel data collected by the Centre for Business Research at Cambridge University. The research explores the determinants...

In this paper we investigate the motives of high-tech acquieres by analysing their revealed preferences in terms of the high-tech companies they acquire.