outsourcing of R&D activities to contract research organizations and its implications for innovation performance. This paper …

Firms compete increasingly in an open innovation environment. Search strategies for external knowledge become therefore … are built through internal or external R&D activities) and the munificence of its innovation environment. We test these … its breadth. Moreover, we find that scarce innovation environments favor deep search strategies while breadth is more …

known about how the direction of search strategies influences innovation performance. In this paper, we argue that firms … that being open for innovation generally pays off. However, both moderating factors have a crucial role to play: On the one … novel knowledge and to enhance innovation performance. We develop targeted management recommendations based on these results …

Searching for externally available knowledge has been characterized as a vital part of the innovation process. The … availability of such innovation impulses, however, critically depends on the environment a firm is operating in. Little is known on … how institutional infrastructures for innovation differ with respect to the munificence in providing innovation impulses …

The shift towards more open and interconnected innovation activities has been a major topic of recent academic and … universities, to increase the effectiveness of their innovation activities. Hence, management needs to define search strategies for … that search strategies driven by science, suppliers and the product market will contribute differently to innovation …

We investigate whether appointing a middle management level affects startups’ innovation performance. Additional …