product development - collaboration, innovation, and internationalisation - are the core tenets of the accompanying … is investigated and this leads to postulating a period of technological overlap and its implications for collaboration ….One of the shortcomings acknowledged in the literature is the generic application of the term collaboration to cover a wide …

This study investigates the links between product innovation and external collaboration and between future product … product introduction than firms without any external collaboration. Further, firms with past abandonment experiences reported … with external collaboration were more likely to introduce new products even if they had previously experienced abandonment …

. Collaboration with an academic institution can assist in overcoming this dilemma. This process is not without its difficulties and …

, entrepreneurship, education, psychology, and sociology. Consequently, ITG approaches innovation problems more accurately by …

stakeholder pressure and non-financial readiness were related to innovation adoption in SMEs; but that for large firms, adoption … financial cost and the effort involved, are too great for SMEs to overcome unless there is either a compelling need (external … pressure) or enough in-house capability (non-financial readiness). This suggests that SMEs are more likely to have innovation …

(SMEs), creating overlapping interactions in the roles of government policy, universities and SMEs and the processes of … stakeholders (industry, government and universities in particular), the enabling mechanisms (network governance, relevant education … 450 SMEs in the UK to begin to evaluate the roles of universities and highlight areas for further theoretical development. …