The role of universities for the innovation process of countries or regions had been widely explored. In lagged regions … analyses innovation and especially the interaction of firms with universities and research institutes, as strategy to face the … low internal investment capacity in innovation. Our focus is the ultra-peripheral region of Brazilian Amazon and it is …

. Adopting new production technologies and realizing synergy effects might allow cost reduction, product innovation and product … upgrading. Even if GVCs represent a rich environment for innovation activities, the extent to which knowledge is created and … heterogeneous innovation capacities for the firms involved. Differences in the forms of governance underlying buyer …

regional innovation and the importance of local inputs in innovative performance. However, most of the studies use data from … innovation measured by patents, and, similarly, a relation between patenting activity of the firms and local academic research …. With the purpose of evaluate which externality is more important to innovation in Brazilian regions, marshallian or …

the development of coffee as a non-commodity product in Brazil. It is expected that due to new patterns of coffee … discusses some of the major aspects of contemporary industrial organization requirements imposing process innovation along the … context of competition where innovation, segmentation and product differentiation are more important factors for the …

, we specifically address the impact of digitalization on business model innovation (BMI). Based on data collected from 338 … business model, we study antecedents of BM experimentation and BM innovation practices, as well as overall business performance …. We carried out four in-depth case studies of companies in which BM innovation is related to IT artefacts and more …