Empirical studies shows that SMEs are characterized by budget constraints and are reluctant to invest in innovation activities such as undertaking R&D, taking out patents, and hiring highly qualified research staff. This paper suggests that SMEs’ can adopt network alliances to minimize their...

The starting point for this research is the authors’ hypothesis that global innovational networks play an important role in the development of the modern global economy because they stimulate international cooperation in the innovational sphere, the translation of knowledge in the global...

This study examined the influence of networks on the development of technological capabilities of 90 technology-based companies (TBCs) graduated by Brazilian incubators. The relational-based view theoretically supported the study. The data were processed via Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). A...