Over the past two decades multinational firms from high-technology industries have increasingly relied on outsourcing of production to external suppliers. We present a theoretical framework that stems from the resource-based view of the firm (RBV) and develop hypotheses claiming that outsourcing...

Kulturpflanzen haben unter ressourcenökonomischen Gesichtspunkten ein enormes Potential, zum einen als Rohstofflieferant, aber auch als Biofrabrik der Zukunft. Die Anwendung von Biotechnologie in der Pflanzenzüchtung (Crop Science) wird bereits als "dritte technologische Revolution" gepriesen,...

A growing body of work emphasizes the role that the spatial component plays in the in the innovationprocess. These perspectives brought the region’s infrastructure and its endowment withcrucial factors into the focus of research. Given that these factors do significantly influence...

The focus of this study is on integration processes in European R&D by analyzing the spatio-temporal dimension of three different R&D collaboration networks across Europe. These networks cover different types of knowledge creation, namely co-patent networks, project based R&D networks within the...