and measurement approaches used in the Community Innovation Surveys. While controlling for firm size, age and sector, we …

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 …

Firms' search for external knowledge is one aspect of knowledge integration in the innovation process. The literature … has investigated innovation and the breadth of search in different information channels. We introduce the concept of … search balance reflecting the heterogeneity of a firm's knowledge base. Results from German Community Innovation Survey data …

Customer co-creation during the innovation process has recently been suggested to be a major source for firms …' competitive advantage. Hereby, customers actively engage in a firm's innovation process and take over innovation activities … relevance, novelty, and costs, and then their impact on various innovation outcomes is investigated. Next, the study examines …

The innovation activities of foreign subsidiaries have been identified as an important source of competitive advantage … foreignness). We derive potential stumbling blocks in the innovation process theoretically and argue that these materialize as … innovation activities in Germany from various sectors. We find that foreign-controlled firms are not challenged by liability of …

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 … source and leads to improved innovation performance? Our regression analysis, based on a sample of 3294 German firms from the …

A key concept in the economics of innovation is the 'public good' nature of knowledge. This generates a tension between …

collaboration with start-ups within their corporate innovation ecosystems (CIEs). The purpose of this study is to analyze the role … of SCUs with reference to the transfer of knowledge between start-ups and large companies in collaborative innovation … collaborative innovation processes involving start-ups by studying the knowledge-broker role played by SCUs in the complex network …

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 based on a literature review. The paper links together open …