study shows that these social networks are an essential driver of knowledge integration and innovation. …

innovation networks in the Eindhoven region in the Netherlands. Previous research showed that these networks contribute to … regional economic development. This paper explores the mechanism through which this happens. Temporary innovation networks may …

The objective of this study is to investigate the sensitivity of the estimated relationship between innovation and firm … different classifications of innovation. The analyses are performed in both level and growth rate dimensions. The overall …. -- Knowledge capital ; productivity ; innovation ; manufacturing ; services ; knowledge intensity ; Community Innovation Survey …

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 …

influences the innovation performance of a firm. While former studies mainly focused on knowledge management cycles, we … management techniques and their influence on product and process innovation. The ability to source external knowledge positively … the tools of knowledge management in function of the kind of technical innovation it wants to proceed …

contributes to innovation in source countries. We use changes in the labour mobility legislation within Europe as exogenous … variation to establish causality. By analysing patent citation data, we further provide evidence that these positive effects are …

Background: Firms increasingly depend on external actors for the process of generating innovation. Interaction with …. Objectives: Although open innovation has received more attention, still less is known about its effect on organizational … innovation. To fill this gap, this study investigates the impact of various external knowledge sources on the willingness of …

networks across patent categories. We call them pathfinder firms and patents. First, the typical pathfinder firms are very …, where new citations form through both quality based preferential attachment, exact and mutated copying of parent patent …’s citations. The model rationalizes the firm level empirical facts. After calibrated to the patent citation data, the model sheds …

Issues regarding information needs for managing innovation in a company are presented in the paper. The authors … efficiency of innovation activities in companies. The concept is depiced against the background of general issues related to … internal factors which influence the system of innovation process management. …