theoretical framework empirically we use a survey of more than 800 firms from both manufacturing and services sectors in Germany … these interaction strategies to innovation success which is directly based on university inputs. We find that the firms that …) perform better with regard to innovation success. When we compare both effects we find that broadening a firm's interaction …

The objective of this dissertation is to increase understanding of how organizations can embrace open innovation in … how firms can embrace open innovation in order to acquire external ideas and technologies, and in order to transfer … internal ideas and technologies to the outside. An extensive literature review was conducted on open innovation and …

Successful innovation depends on the development and integration of new knowledge in the innovation process. In order … to successfully innovate, the firm will combine different innovation activities. In addition to doing own research and … innovation activities. Using data from the Community Innovation Survey on Belgian manufacturing firms, we show that firms that …

theoretical lens of open innovation. SMEs have shown to be the greatest source of job growth in both developed and developing … partake in technology transfer. This paper advances the study of the theory of open innovation within SMEs by providing …

- poses a dilemma in terms of how to organize for innovation. Acquirers must integrate acquired firms in order to exploit … the coordination-autonomy dilemma can be better managed by recognizing that the effect of a structural form on innovation … outcomes is contingent on the stage of development of the innovation trajectory of the acquired firm. Specifically, we show …