The importance of collaboration for firm level innovation has been well established but much of the research focuses on … innovation and external collaboration and between future product innovation and past abandonment in small and medium sized firms … level of new product introduction than firms that did not have any external collaboration. Further, firms with past …

Despite the growing significance afforded to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in contemporary Britain, much of …

product development - collaboration, innovation, and internationalisation - are the core tenets of the accompanying … is investigated and this leads to postulating a period of technological overlap and its implications for collaboration ….One of the shortcomings acknowledged in the literature is the generic application of the term collaboration to cover a wide …

, companies first integrated their information systems to speed up transactions such as ordering and billing. Later collaboration … expected substantial benefits from collaboration. However, one could also argue that the recent popularity of the concepts … from professional organizations as well as academia indicate that the trend towards interorganizational collaboration is …