This paper characterizes the innovation strategy of manufacturing firms and examines the relation between the … innovation strategy and important industry-, firm- and innovation-specific characteristics using Belgian data from the Eurostat … Community Innovation Survey. In addition to important size effects explaining innovation, we find that high perceived risks and …

also find that higher innovation levels and experience from the parent university are associated with higher efficiency …

innovation, the business and social ties connecting firms deepen the hazards associated to the appropriation of rents. …

The ability to generate innovations and capture the rents from innovation are important for firms’ competitive … innovation output, the knowledge flows among the clustered firms and, ultimately, on who captures the rents from innovation. The … rents from innovation. Extant research has noted that the social and business networks binding firms in clusters are …

In this paper we discuss knowledge and innovation in clusters and the benefits of clustering from a knowledge …