Collaborative innovation literature shows that collaborating with clients enhances the innovation performance of firms particularly as regard the development of highly new products. In this setting, are highly new products the innovation category that drives the most firm's performance? This is...

This study recognizes that collaboration with customers for new product development may bring important financial benefits to firms, but at the same time may seriously hamper explorative learning. Many firms are approached by customers with requests to develop new products for them. While such...

The resource-based view of the firm is characterized by the idea that capital, labor and natural resources are the factors influencing the economic growth of a company. In the last decades, the awareness of knowledge as an important driver of economic growth has increased, and led to the...

This paper aims at analysing the role of the environment in innovative strategies based on firm economic performance indicators such as employment, turnover, and labour productivity growth. We exploit a unique dataset of 773 Italian service firms with 20 or more employees comprising 1993-1995...

This paper explores the impact of intellectual capital on new product development performance. The study is conducted on more than 200 public companies from the USA and Russia over the period 2005-2009. The authors employ panel data analysis to discover the specific intangible drivers of...

The 2018 Global Innovation Index ranks Pakistan 118 out of 126 in innovation. One of the main reasons why developing countries, such as Pakistan, fail to innovate is their improvisation of astute and concurrent knowledge. This study explores the contemporary hurdles that lead to manufacturing...

An interesting problem in management of technology and economics of innovation is how to explain the sources of some breakthroughs in research organisations. The present study confronts this problem by analysing the main determinant of the discovery of quasi-periodic materials that has generated...

Purpose – This study aims to ask two important research questions: “Do the investments of innovation capital and information technology (IT) capital have a non-linear relationship with firm performance?” and “Does the interaction between innovation capital and IT capital have synergy...

Using a game theoretical model on firms' simultaneous investments in product and process innovation, we deduct and empirically test hypotheses on the optimal R&D portfolio, investment, performance, and dynamic efficiency of R&D for acquisitions and in independently competing firms. We use...

In response to competitive pressures, firms increasingly use R&D alliances to complement in-house R&D efforts. However, empirical evidence to date provides little guidance on how firms can use this strategy effectively. Here, I examine why some R&D alliances contribute more than others to firm...