Information is a critical resource in innovation processes. External information can be helpful in innovation processes … to complete them successfully. SMEs in particular are therefore advised to draw on consulting in innovation processes, as … view, the involvement of intermediaries in the innovation process is accompanied by the risk of losing specific knowledge …

part is a longitudinal study of 49 inter-organisational innovation groups in Germany. We find that the share of regional …In the literature there is a controversy about the relevance of the spatial dimension in innovation collaboration. We … innovation projects. To this end, we introduce a social-psychological approach to the field of economic geography. The empirical …