general. While studies on market oriented product development have identified several general dimensions of market knowledge … used in product innovation, the nature of market knowledge that is specifically important in the chemical industry remains … unclear. Because firm-relevant knowledge resources are increasingly seen as being industry specific, filling this gap becomes …

Innovation processes consist of interactive learning mechanisms that combine different knowledge sources. Using a set …-by-doing, -using and -interacting) modes of innovation. We show that SMEs integrate STI-based knowledge into DUI-routines through … absorb STI-based knowledge. Based on our empirical findings, we derive implications for innovation policy with regards to …

find market knowledge to be a multi-dimensional construct consisting of segment, product, application, and customer … knowledge. We illustrate how a project’s exploratory and exploitative market learning is balanced across market knowledge …

knowledge and ways of knowledge combination in innovation processes. Innovation Biographies allow capturing relationships …, contextual settings and different kinds of knowledge and enable insights into the evolvement and development of innovations. By … reconstructed including the evolution of related knowledge. Data collection is able to transcend sectoral as well as local, regional …

In this paper I propose a novel abstract mechanism for the creation and diffusion of knowledge and use an agent based … explain and the stocks of knowledge available in a society, be it individually or collectively. I find that the aggregate … number of knowledge units in a society increases more slowly, the more naive its inhabitants are. I also find that the …

Innovative ideas have unique properties arising from low communication costs. But ideas come from knowledge that is … costly to communicate. “Formalizing” knowledge — codifying, developing standards, etc. — reduces these costs. In a simple …, knowledge is formalized, new technology replaces old and patents increase innovation incentives. In the other, knowledge is not …