Does knowledge from dirty technologies spill over to clean technologies? This question has implications for the ease of switching from dirty to clean R&D. We measure knowledge spillovers using the proportion of citations in clean patents that directly refer to dirty technologies and the degrees...

Almost 30 years ago, researchers began a systematic study of innovation by end users and user firms. At that time, the phenomenon was generally regarded as a minor oddity. Today, it is clear that innovation by users, generally openly shared, is a very powerful and general phenomenon. It is...

Innovation processes within corporations increasingly tap into international technology sources, yet little is known about the relative contribution of different types of innovation channels. We investigate the effectiveness of different types of international technology sourcing activities...

Networks broaden the space for sourcing knowledge and skills for innovation in tourism beyond traditional actors and provide the framework for interactions, cooperation and knowledge sharing among them. The research focuses on complex relationships between the actors linked via web platform in...

This study examined the personal traits that contribute to the success of corporate science projects in Peru by focusing on the roles of CEOs, scientists, and innovators. Although Peru has seen economic progress in recent decades, integrating scientific research into business strategies requires...

To innovate, firms constitute a ‘knowledge-capital’, defined as a set of information and knowledge produced, acquired and used in the value creation process. In this paper, we focus on small and medium-sized companies (SMEs) and study their ability to develop their own knowledge-capital as...

Open innovation has rendered increased interest both in practice and research, and has expanded from dyadic transfers of ideas, to ecosystem levels. Knowledge is at the heart of open innovation, and this paper describes and discusses knowledge-transfer linkages for open innovation. It does so...

Previous studies on open innovation and strategic management have emphasized the positive impact of external knowledge on firms' innovation performance. However, given that external knowledge is widely distributed across a myriad of heterogeneous sources, it presents challenges for both the...