&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 …

. Adopting new production technologies and realizing synergy effects might allow cost reduction, product innovation and product … upgrading. Even if GVCs represent a rich environment for innovation activities, the extent to which knowledge is created and … heterogeneous innovation capacities for the firms involved. Differences in the forms of governance underlying buyer …

The paper develops a novel typology of global knowledge and innovation strategies. It focuses on New Zealand …-European Union (EU) business relations, and particularly knowledge and innovation links between New Zealand and EU firms. Four case … depending on the strength of the firm’s global knowledge and innovation links, and its strategic position in global competition …

examining innovation outcomes. We argue that exporters can often access diverse knowledge inputs not available in the domestic … market, that this knowledge can spill back to the focal firm, and that such learning can foster increased innovation. We … examine product innovation and patent application counts of a representative sample of Spanish manufacturing firms from 1990 …

This paper examines how productivity effects of human capital and innovation vary at different points of the …-technology manufacturing, average innovation performance is higher in all industries in Germany and the innovation performance distributions … investing in product innovation in the majority of industries. Frontier firms enjoy the highest returns to product innovation …

Firm innovation capacity depends not only on internal capabilities, but also on external expertise and knowledge … acquired through cooperation. This paper analyzes direct and indirect effect of R&D cooperation on the innovation of Italian … firms. Using a multivariate probit model to account for the complementarity of four different types of innovation activity …

This paper examines how productivity effects of human capital and innovation vary at different points of the …-skilled employees and industries in Germany by a more unequal distribution of human capital intensity. In Germany, average innovation … performance is higher in all industries, except for low-technology manufacturing, and in the Netherlands the innovation …

This paper explores how value-chain governance affects the innovation performance of suppliers of intermediate products … is more conducive to innovation for suppliers, especially when these firms have medium capability levels. Conversely … intermediates and innovation performance, which indicates that technology-gap is an important mediator of learning within value …

differences in risk management, perception of innovation, organization of the business model. The novelty of this study comes from … the comparative approach of the two areas in terms of innovation, sustainability and risk management, by highlighting the …