This study aims to uncover the missing link between shared goals and team innovation. Previous literature reflects … innovation and environmental dynamism as the mechanisms moderating the relationship between shared goals and team innovation … direct and indirect negative effects on team innovation. Specifically, under dynamic environment, shared goals may have …

diversity. Does this trend affect innovation? I use patent data to disentangle these two sources of knowledge diversity in teams … and compare their effects on innovation output in a large panel of firms. Both diversity types increase innovation at the … optimal team composition. An analysis using inventor deaths to induce exogenous variation in team composition confirms the …

This study focuses on the role of human factors in the innovation processes of firms in four member states of the … to obtain new information related to innovation and then to integrate it with their indigenous resources. The innovation … process thus consists of the absorptive process, through which outside information is employed to enhance innovation …

In recent decades firms have intensified the exploration of external sources of knowledge to enhance their innovation …

Firm innovation capacity depends not only on internal capabilities, but also on external expertise and knowledge … acquired through cooperation. This paper analyzes direct and indirect effect of R&D cooperation on the innovation of Italian … firms. Using a multivariate probit model to account for the complementarity of four different types of innovation activity …

Firms' search for external knowledge is one aspect of knowledge integration in the innovation process. The literature … has investigated innovation and the breadth of search in different information channels. We introduce the concept of … search balance reflecting the heterogeneity of a firm's knowledge base. Results from German Community Innovation Survey data …

study shows that these social networks are an essential driver of knowledge integration and innovation. …

This paper analyzes the role of regional characteristics on innovation persistency among firms. Using five waves of the … Community Innovation Survey in Sweden, we have traced the innovative behavior of firms over a ten-year period, i.e. between 2002 …

innovation networks in the Eindhoven region in the Netherlands. Previous research showed that these networks contribute to … regional economic development. This paper explores the mechanism through which this happens. Temporary innovation networks may …