This study focuses on the early stages of international innovation activities, i.e. the organizational processes … through which promising ideas from around the globe are collected and evaluated. We ask: What characteristics make foreign …

This paper investigates the drivers and the effects of the internationalisation of innovation activities in SMEs based … on a large data set of German firms covering the period 2002-2007. We look at different stages of the innovation process … resources, home market competition and innovationrelated location advantages for an SME's decision to engage in innovation …

knowledge exchange between technologically similarly oriented locations. Hence, the increased attraction of foreign R …&D locations is no reason for concern regarding the perceived hollowing-out of the national innovation systems. Indeed, since the … advantages built at home are at the core of both the HBA and HBE strategies, the national system of innovation in the home …

This paper aims to shed light on firm specific drivers that lead firms to internationalise their innovation activities …’s competitive environment and the influence of innovation obstacles in the home country. In particular, the role of the potential … used to observe their impact on the decision to locate innovation activities in various countries and regions (China …

distributed globally. Firms' innovation activities which are carried out abroad comprise either the localization of uniform … paper is to show how internal firm capabilities as well as external forces from the firm’s business and national innovation … environment impact on the firm's decision to carry out different innovation activities abroad. The analysis is based on around …

This study focuses on the early stages of international innovation activities, i.e. the organizational processes … through which promising ideas from around the globe are collected and evaluated. We ask: What characteristics make foreign …

In recent years, there has been a fundamental shift in the innovation architecture of global firms. Rapid growth of the … is creating increased consumer demand for affordable innovations. Thus, these innovations are reshaping the innovation … emerging markets on the innovation architecture; the potential innovation strategies that leverage these effects; and the …

based on their innovation outcomes, open innovation and organisational learning practices. Results indicate that firms with … lower internationalisation level owe their innovation success to coupled and outbound open innovation practices that … originate from market research, competitor tracking and public information. Mediating effect of outbound innovation is present …