Knowledge Intensive Business Services (KIBS) are widely perceived as being important drivers of technological progress … 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 …

knowledge throughout the economy. This article presents an analysis of the KIBS sector based on a literature review. In the … first section, it presents the issues connected with defining and categorizing KIBS. In the second one, it shows the … section consists of a detailed review of the literature devoted to research on KIBS. …

The rise of knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) may be considered as one of the decisive trends of economic … marketing and financial consulting offered by third parties. As a consequence, considering manufacturing and KIBS as vertically … integration between KIBS and manufacturing sectors along what we could define as a "knowledge-based value chain", the easier the …

. Knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) are representative for such a knowledge-based economy, since their main input and … output factor is directly related to knowledge itself. While research on KIBS has been mainly conducted on the firm and … the micro-level are central to understand how KIBS can drive innovation in regional and national economies by contributing …