governance view of collaboration, and test these on an extensive panel dataset of innovation-active Dutch firms during 1996 … value chain integration in innovation processes. Positive interrelation also exists in vertical alliances, as immediate past …

the focus is on the creation of new technology, that is, innovation. Low skill firms are hypothesized to benefit less from … innovation activities, particularly collaborative research and development (R&D). In other words, skills and innovation are … complementary. Complementarities associated with innovation may generate persistent differences in firm behavior and performance …