This paper explores how value-chain governance affects the innovation performance of suppliers of intermediate products … is more conducive to innovation for suppliers, especially when these firms have medium capability levels. Conversely … intermediates and innovation performance, which indicates that technology-gap is an important mediator of learning within value …

By using firm-level data provided by the fourth round of the (Italian) Community Innovation Survey (CIS 2012), this … paper explores whether the implementation of specific changes in work organisation within a firm influences its innovation … performance, not only directly, but also via reinforcing the link between human capital resources and innovation. The authors also …

implications for place-based innovation policies, reveal that technological relatedness has short-term effects on employment growth …

innovation and other aspects of firm performance. They suggest that private VC tends to have larger effects than government VC …

importance of the interactions and linkages among acteurs and institutions involved in innovation and technology development of a … country and calls such a web of interaction a national innovation system. The theoretical and empirical analyses on national … systems of innovation lead to the conclusion that countries differ in the way in which knowledge flows and that innovation …