We link the hiring of R&D scientists from industry competitors to the subsequent formation of collaborative agreements, namely technology-oriented alliances. By transferring technological knowledge as well as cognitive elements to the hiring firm, mobile inventors foster the alignment of...

In the current economic environment, interfirm collaboration for innovation is increasingly present because of the opportunities for growth and development that it offers to the partners involved and it is included in the company’s strategy, designed primarily to obtain high competitiveness....

This paper is concerned with the characteristics of the innovation process. It is aimed at understanding the systemness characteristics or multi-party interdependence in the development process. The study explores the innovations of ATM/cash cards, credit cards and EFTPOS/debit cards to...

This paper investigates the selection of governance forms in interfirm collaborations taking into account the predictions from transaction costs and property rights theories. Transaction costs arguments are often used to justify the introduction of hierarchical controls in collaborations, but...

FORRANT R. and FLYNN E. (1998) Seizing agglomeration's potential: the Greater Springfield Massachusetts metalworking sector in transition, 1986-1996, Reg. Studies 32, 209-222. In the 1980s a dramatic wave of lay-offs and plant closings among western Massachusetts' largest metalworking...