This paper examines the central role of knowledge transfer and network relationships in the context of services …

Literature shows that services in the manufacturing industry become more and more important. Especially in highly … competitive markets the revenue share of services is increasing. In order to achieve these ambitious revenue and profit goals many … services generate profit and provide value to their customers. This paper deals with service portfolio management (SPM), which …

services sectors shows that patent rights, the level of domestic sales, collaboration for innovation purposes, innovation …

sample. However, this positive significant effect corresponds to the high-tech sector and services, while the effect is not …

indeed yield significant growth premiums. Moreover, offering services seems to pay off depending on the intensity of R …

. However, the positive and significant impact of R&D expenditures on employment is detectable in services and high …

Services dominate all advanced economies but service innovations are still an underresearched topic. One of the reasons …, that would encompass both manufacturing ad services. Meeting this challenge will, however, be difficult, given the strong …

service firms in 2004-2009. Firms that introduced new services or marketing techniques experienced stronger growth. Process …