product innovation. This paper deals with the knowledge flow within the Japanese automotive supply chain catalysed by the … knowledge for innovation and development. Based on our qualitative study, we show that the process of industrial upgrading is …

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 …