to an organization’s innovation. …

activities. Also, they will not be sufficiently able to capture possible long-term technology and learning benefits that may spin …-term relationships with key suppliers, where it builds learning routines and ensures that the capability sets of both parties are aligned …

In their seminal paper, Acs and Audretsch (1988) analyze innovation patterns across industries and identify several … innovation; industries characterized by increased shares of skilled labor and large firms provide favorable conditions for … innovation. By analyzing a new and more consciously compiled database, we re-examine their original claims. Our results largely …

Social networks matter in the innovation processes of young and small firms, since ‘innovation does not exist in a … vacuum (Van De Ven, 1986: 601).’ The contacts a firm has could both generate advantages for further innovation and growth … to either the internal sources or the external contacts to trigger innovation. And when a conclusive study has been …

/>-------------------------------------------------------<br/> Traditionally, standards have been perceived as contradicting innovation. However, this view has been overturned in recent years … address will present the innovation-promoting impacts of standards in three different dimensions. In addition, possible … barriers for the exploitation of these potentials and negative implications of the interaction between innovation and …