Over the last few decades, innovation has doubled automobile performance at a time when outsourcing has increased. But … outsourcing is subject to well-known contracting hazards that would also afflict outsourcing for innovation. In this paper, we … examine how supplier firms generate innovation in the presence of such hazards, using a recent survey of the US automotive …

Hungarian suppliers. The paper concludes that diffusion models and the notion of sectoral system of innovation and production … innovation systems still do matter. As for a major element of an NIS, namely government policies, it is more fruitful to create … an attractive, favourable environment for R&D and innovation than focusing on the promotion of industry-specific R&D and …

Several streams of recent literature emphasize the advantages of involving external sources of innovation in the … networked innovation strategy?' Building on empirical evidence gathered over a ten-year period at a major European automotive … external sources of innovation in developing complex products. The empirical evidence highlights two aspects that are important …

show that 93 percent of firms were engaged in incremental innovation activities, while 87 percent in new product …