innovation by using a sample of 108 Tunisian service firms. Specifically, we are interested in the domestic outsourcing of … innovation. This suggests that outsourcing allows Tunisian service firms to create value, increase flexibility and improve the …

the Regional Innovation Systems approach it is argued that cities provide crucial innovation advantages working as … infrastructures on the innovation probability of KIS firms. However, the effects vary with the type of innovation pursued, thus … demonstrating a high complexity of local relations conducive to KIS firm innovation. …

and innovation. KIBS are generally understood as depending, driving and thriving on knowledge exchanges and therefore … paper investigates how the innovation performance and processes of KIBS firms are related to their distance from the nearest … Germany as a research field. While most current evidence on this topic emerges from Canada, we complements and add to this …

of incremental and radical firm innovation using firm micro data from the KIBS Foundation Survey. The results show that …. Access to knowledge from universities and research institutions is particularly important for radical innovation … and clients from the manufacturing sector: these stimulate in particular incremental, but also radical innovation …

The study of the determinants of innovation processes has received great attention in both the economics and the … technological innovation - namely, product and process innovations - focusing on Italian manufacturing small and medium sized firms … successful technological innovation. Overall, results suggest that technological innovation in manufacturing SMEs is mainly …

This paper serves as another complementary link in a chain of a rather limited number of investigations in the R&D-innovation …-productivity relationship within service industries. Innovation has been found to be a major contributor to productivity growth in manufacturing …. In this paper, the importance of innovation is explored by comparing manufacturing and service firms in a sample of …

ultimately affect innovation and productivity in Uruguayan service firms compared to manufacturing firms. The results show that …-technological (e.g., organizational or marketing) innovations. ICT and other innovation investments are positively associated with …

), allows for causal interpretation of the relationship between innovation output and labor productivity. We find that knowledge … intensive services benefit from innovation activities in the sense that these activities causally increase their labor …