This paper provides some insight into the way a Fablab increases local entrepreneurial capabilities by offering a new and collective way to co-shape novelties based on a brico-lage mode of innovation. Based on an original survey of 48 international FabLabs, we observed that FabLabs tend to...

The concept of Triple Helix relates to collaboration between universities, governments and industry. Such collaboration can take different forms in different countries. This paper describes collaboration between universities and government in China, specifically in the city of Hefei in Anhui...

Networks broaden the space for sourcing knowledge and skills for innovation in tourism beyond traditional actors and provide the framework for interactions, cooperation and knowledge sharing among them. The research focuses on complex relationships between the actors linked via web platform in...

This article explains how research and development (R&D) collaborations impact process innovation; given the differences in innovation mechanisms, prior insights from studies of product innovation do not necessarily apply to process innovation. Extending the knowledge-based view of the firm, the...

This study examines the primary external control mechanism of universities (i.e. international rankings) to assess their knowledge exploration and exploitation performance. A taxonomy of indicators from the perspective of ambidexterity is presented. The most prestigious global university...

Start-up collaboration units (SCUs) are organizational units specifically created by large companies to facilitate collaboration with start-ups within their corporate innovation ecosystems (CIEs). The purpose of this study is to analyze the role of SCUs with reference to the transfer of...

Under what conditions do originators of innovation benefit from knowledge spillover by learning from knowledge recipients, and when do they not? This study examines how originator firms' learning from recipients differs depending on their spillover characteristics. These characteristics were...

Open innovation has rendered increased interest both in practice and research, and has expanded from dyadic transfers of ideas, to ecosystem levels. Knowledge is at the heart of open innovation, and this paper describes and discusses knowledge-transfer linkages for open innovation. It does so...

Innovation in different Stages (INNOVS) is considered an important driver to create and increase the competitive advantage (OECD, 2005; White & Bruton, 2011; INSEAD, 2013; Dussauge et al, 1992; Hill &Jones, 2011). By other hand, Knowledge management today, is considered a real factor for improving innovation in...

Innovation can be broken down in stages (INNOVS) to increase the competitive advantage. When the Innovation improves the Knowledge Management in the firms based on the sense of information: for, from and about the customers, is called: Customer Knowledge Management (CKM). The aim of this study...