into the market. There is a growing need to understand important activities so as to achieve product innovation. This … involvement, and inward IP licensing, on product innovation, especially considering the degree of the novelty of the manufactured …-exploration are crucial determining factors as to whether low or higher degree of novelty is achieved in product innovation. The …

The role of innovation in improving productivity might vary according to a country's relative position in technology … advancement. Frontier countries might benefit more from policies that promote firms' internal innovation (create), while follower … countries would gain more from policies favoring the adoption of existing technologies through innovation outsourcing (buy …

While firms increasingly adopt open innovation, little is known about whether firms gain or lose from this innovation … open innovation strategies, particularly collaboration and contractual forms of relationships for innovation (i ….e. innovation cooperation and R&D outsourcing/external R&D). The thesis is empirical and relates the various results to the data …