Creativity has a strong social component. The capture of distributed collective creativity plays a significant role in the innovative processes in organizations. In recent years, many localized spaces of collaborative innovation have been created under different names such as: fab labs,...

Dieses Projekt zeichnet die "Vernetztheit" Österreichs und stellt internationale F&E-Potentiale sowie deren Interaktionsmuster in der Durchführung und Finanzierung dar. Nationale Maßnahmen und Instrumente müssen auf die strategische Neuausrichtung und Positionierung von Unternehmen...

We present the theory of the collaborative innovation bloc (CIB), an evolving system of innovation within which activity takes place over time. We show how the application of the CIB perspective can help make institutional and evolutionary economics more concrete, relevant, and persuasive,...

Using novel data on European firms, this paper examines the effect of business group affiliation on innovation. We find that business groups foster the scale and novelty of corporate innovation. Group affiliation is particularly important in industries that rely more on external finance and have...