The research project KompNet 2011 - Factors determining the success of regional innovation networks, funded by the … partners in innovation projects, nevertheless in-house development is the most important form of creating innovative products … intensity, are very important for the innovation success. Tacit and codified transfer channels are equally important for the …

This paper extends the existing literature on strategic R&D alliances by presenting a model of innovation networks with … intensity of cooperation and innovation. Within different knowledge regimes, we examine the structure of networks that emerge …

This paper analyzes the effect of different cooperation forms on innovation in small and medium enterprises in Belgium …, Germany, Portugal and Spain using Community Innovation Survey data from 2008. We find that vertical cooperation and knowledge … positive effect of horizontal cooperation on sales due to product innovation only in Germany. …

effective innovation performance. In this paper we develop a conceptual model of direct and moderated network effects on a firm …’s innovation. We test this model on a large sample of small and medium-sized firms from a posttransitional and developed economy …. We show that absorptive capacity moderates the relationship between networks and innovation outcomes, but with some …

The paper addresses disruptive changes that globalization imposes on the geography of innovation systems, and … initially weak national production and innovation systems. Second, a greater variety of international knowledge linkages is … possible, as globalization reduces the spatial stickiness of innovation. Third, globalization has culminated in an important …

Social networks matter in the innovation processes of young and small firms, since lsquo;innovation does not exist in a … vacuum (Van De Ven, 1986: 601).' The contacts a firm has could both generate advantages for further innovation and growth … to either the internal sources or the external contacts to trigger innovation. And when a conclusive study has been …

complements to, and not substitutes for, the original product. We discuss the implications on firm strategy for innovation …

This paper examines how a radical technological innovation affects alliance formation of firms and subsequent network …

Die vorliegende Studie wurde im Arbeitsbereich Humankapital und Innovation erstellt und im Dezember 2010 abgeschlossen …