cooperative relationships impacts their innovation and market expansion-adaptation capabilities. Nurturing an entrepreneurship … orientation is critical to build flexibility, transfer innovation to markets, and drive export performance. Ultimately … exploration (learning), exploitation (expansion-adaptation), and dynamic (innovation, entrepreneurship) capabilities as …

effective innovation performance. In this paper we develop a conceptual model of direct and moderated network effects on a firm …’s innovation. We test this model on a large sample of small and medium-sized firms from a posttransitional and developed economy …. We show that absorptive capacity moderates the relationship between networks and innovation outcomes, but with some …

and foster innovation capability, directly and indirectly, through networking and market learning. Innovation capability …