The paper deals with the policies for an idealized transition of a National System of Innovation (NSI) from a system …

focus is on knowledge management practices implemented to increase collaboration between actors within a firm on innovation … innovation strategy targeted at consumers and continuous R+D activities is positively related to KM usage. In addition, more …

European countries. As a whole, Europe is lagging behind in its ability to generate, organise, and sustain innovation processes … position of the US as a locus of innovation in pharmaceuticals has increased over the past decade compared to Europe. All in …

This paper gives a survey of insights into inter-firm alliances and networks for innovation, from a constructivist … myopia that, for the sake of innovation, needs to be complemented by means of outside relations with other firms, at larger … cognitive distance. Hence the importance of networks for innovation.On the governance side, the paper gives a review of …

paper is to examine to what extent outsourcing relationships can be a source of innovation in industrial services using a …. Our results support the evidence of positive effects of outsourcing service activities on the capacity of innovation. This …

Although organisational structure has sometimes been mentioned in evolutionary economics as well as in the innovation … literature as a possible determinant of innovation performance, very little systematic theoretical and empirical work exist on … between new HRM practices positively influence financial performance, they will also positively influence innovation …

The paper deals with the significant impact of location on innovation activity that has been found in many empirical … of these issues the concept of a regional innovation system is presented in some detail and an overview of results from … recent research on regional innovation systems is given. The paper then discusses basic policy options and names a number of …