In recent years, innovation processes involve more heterogenous actors inside and outside the firm. Little is known … however about the spatial impact of this organisational decomposition of innovation processes (ODIP): Does it lead to a … geographical dispersion of innovation activities as well? Furthermore, which parts of the innovation process are carried out …

' access to new and better capital goods depends on the knowledge gap, i.e., the wedge between the firm's technical knowledge … knowledge diffusion subsequently leading to declining business dynamism. Our findings indicate that only when knowledge … markups, falling labor share and productivity growth. Patents are an important obstacle to knowledge diffusion. We find an …

This paper explores knowledge services clusters (KSCs) as a distinct and increasingly important form of geographic … global demand for increasingly commoditized knowledge services. Based on prior research on clusters and services offshoring … commoditization of knowledge work on KSC growth: It is proposed that KSCs attract most projects if service commoditization is medium …

By applying the evolutionary economic geography approach and focusing on the organizational dimension of the knowledge … knowledge dynamics unfold in time and space and lead to innovative change. The article focuses on the connections of cumulative … and combinatorial knowledge dynamics at the micro level of firms and other organizations. The empirical results base on …

The paper focuses on the territorial shaping of knowledge dynamics as one of the driving forces for innovation … ongoing restructuring of global value chains and the changes in the organization of innovation 'combinatorial knowledge … dynamics' gain a more prominent role in innovation. Firms are facing an increasing need to combine heterogeneous knowledge …

This paper analyses the influence of in-house R&D and external knowledge acquisition on the total factor productivity … with domestic partners. We do not find a significant effect for employing inventors with access to international knowledge … or for collaborating with international partners. International knowledge acquisition is only effective if conducted via …

The present paper proposes a new way of thinking regarding the relation between innovation and knowledge using a … order to be transformed in technological innovation. In the Knowledge Flow Percolation Model center, human beings are seen … importance of knowledge flows in innovation …

This paper examines the use of innovation protection mechanisms in small and medium enterprises (SMEs). By starting … from a knowledge-based view, the aim is to achive a better understanding of how the role perceived by innovating SMEs of … such as secrecy or lead time advantage are explored. This is because different knowledge protection practices must not only …

Recent studies of knowledge production have increasingly recognized the role of codified knowledge in the operation of … social organizations. Much of the knowledge resident in organizations exists as tacit knowledge, that is, as knowledge that … goes unrecorded. Typically such knowledge is carried as the personal expertise of employees, passed along to other …

In this book, the authors trace the contours of knowledge and innovation in Africa from the founding civilisations to … today’s current realities, and then set out the drivers of change that can be expected to shape innovation systems on the … of, and access to, knowledge in Africa. Taken together, they focus on the trend of regional and international wireless …