Knowledge Intensive Business Services (KIBS) are widely perceived as being important drivers of technological progress … and innovation. KIBS are generally understood as depending, driving and thriving on knowledge exchanges and therefore … paper investigates how the innovation performance and processes of KIBS firms are related to their distance from the nearest …

effective in generating innovation. Using 2006 Korean Innovation Survey in service sector, I test whether openness improves … on Korean service firms’ innovation respectively. I find the following: First, the effect of openness varies depending on … type of innovation. Openness is more effective for radical innovation than for incremental innovation. Second, there is …

innovation success in establishments without R&D but not in establishments with R&D. This supports the hypothesis that rivals …