The issue of through what processes R&D collaboration with universities affects a firms’ innovation performance remains … under-researched. In particular, university relationships have not been fully integrated in the open innovation framework …. This study explores the relationship between firms’ collaboration with universities and their capabilities for innovation …

between university collaboration and the average service firm’s innovation output. Second, in the pursuit of credible … innovative in the literature of innovation studies. In analysis of the interviews, we find very weak support for the first idea …. Innovation efficiency gains in the form of reduced cost and risk for innovation projects, which is a third idea suggested by the …

low by international standards and Italian firms take out only a small number of patents. External sources of innovation … different innovation sources increases the probability of collaboration; and that proximity is more important for small- and …

conditions the emergent systems of innovation in Africa. These effectively determine the development trajectory of the region. We … advance the notion of dynamic and non-dynamic systems of innovation, the latter describing the African condition. In doing … literature on evolutionary theory and systems of innovation. We provide evidence of the colonial origins of skewed schooling …

that intellectual property rights may have on restricting their space for innovation and learning in the pharmaceutical …

entrepreneurship with respect to economic performance. This paper uses the knowledge spillover theory to explain different innovation …-to-the-market innovation but has no effect on the relationship between knowledge and new-to-the-firm innovation. Our results using European … chances that knowledge will become new-to-the-market innovation. The findings highlight the importance of Schumpeterian …