Purpose This study seeks to understand how regulatory and competitive forces impact firms' actions and innovation …, and how such actions influence firms' innovation performance. Design/methodology/approach The data were collected via a … relationship with IS but not with AC. AC has a positive relationship with innovation performance, while IS, surprisingly, does not …

promoting innovation are reviewed – competition and interaction. The competition perspective is illustrated by Schumpeterian …. Consequently, a conscious choice as to which view should be used within a public policy for promoting innovation must be made. It … is concluded that, while both types of economic thinking can be used to promote innovation in this industry, a …

as if the two groups of studies are resting on a common theoretical ground: all seem to depart from a systemic innovation … the assessments becomes comprehensible once the authors allow for a variety of systemic approaches in innovation thinking … innovation system (NIS) and the industrial network (IMP) approaches to exemplify the two perspectives. Findings – An implication …

distribution network change, and regional innovation in construction. Findings – Some answers are provided to the questions of why …

marketing and purchasing (IMP) and national innovation system (NIS) were embedded into the Swedish policy context, where the … the schools view the importance of relations between companies, how they perceive the innovation process, their attitude …

journey in innovation, the authors have to start with the interaction itself, that is the exchange process taking place … restrictions, the second is that these aspects can be positively utilised in innovation processes, and the third is their joint … importance to contemporary policy. All innovation processes must bypass and build on existing investments in social and material …

Purpose Previous IMP research has shown that innovation benefits tend to gravitate across organisational, company and … legal borders. However, OECD and EU policy assume that innovation investments will create benefits in close spatial relation … to where these were made. The overall purpose of this paper is to consider how opportunities and obstacles of innovation …

interaction perspective for exploring the interplay between inner and outer networking during the innovation processes. Findings …-producer network. Originality/value This paper contributes to the innovation field by suggesting ways in which practitioners at smaller … user-producer interactions during innovation processes in health care settings.  …

, and that relationships can be used to bridge learning and innovation among actors across projects. Originality/value – The …