The importance of knowledge and innovation in modern economies justifies the in-creasing interest that scholars are … taking in studying knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS). The objective of this paper is to track the evolution of the … issues are addressed: (1) how KIBS are defined in the litera-ture; (2) how KIBS have been investigated empirically by …

are clear differences in the innovation profiles of the three sectors, which suggest that KIBS cannot be analysed as an …Using data from a survey of 769 firms, this paper provides empirical evidence of the nature of innovation and its … determinants within knowledge intensive business services (KIBS). The aim of the paper is to analyse how KIBS innovate and whether …

The aim of this paper is to verify whether there are idiosyncratic innovation dynamics in the satellite regions …. Firstly, we verify if is possible to isolate regional differences between satellite regions with respect to innovation …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present an integrated model of the determinants of innovation in clusters. In … innovation processes. The authors propose that the exploration capacity of the firm, as well as its networking intensity and the … clusters must develop individual capacities parallel to the systemic resources in order to improve their innovation performance …

We analyze the link between R&D, innovation, and productivity in MSMEs with a special focus on micro firms with fewer … the probability of reporting innovation, with a larger effect size for product than for process innovations. Moreover …, micro firms benefit in a comparable way from innovation processes as larger firms, as they are similarly able to increase …