This article studies the relative impact on product innovation of R&D collaborations with universities, suppliers, customers, and competitors. It argues that each type of R&D collaboration differs in terms of the breadth of new knowledge provided to the firm and in the ease of access of this new...

This chapter analyzes the ways in which firms can use their interactions with customers to generate innovations and better foresight future trends in the marketplace. We discuss how the interaction with customers varies depending on the type of innovation the firm is aiming to achieve: Product...

This article explains how research and development (R&D) collaborations impact process innovation; given the differences in innovation mechanisms, prior insights from studies of product innovation do not necessarily apply to process innovation. Extending the knowledge-based view of the firm, the...