-sized enterprises (SMEs) and draws conclusions, giving special attention to the structure of virtual teams required to support education … to use virtual teams for collaboration and the platform for industry-education collaboration is ready and distance …-industry collaboration. We report the relevant results of an online survey study. The online questionnaire was emailed by using a simple …

emailed by using a simple random sampling method to 356 Malaysian manufacturing small and medium –sized Enterprises (SMEs …). The findings of this study show that SMEs in Malaysia are gaining to use virtual teams, and it can be concluded that … virtual teams provide a new platform for developing the business in SMEs. Based on the study, we suggest avenues for future …

-specific investment and continued commitment toward the collaboration. The results of this study suggest that interfirm relational capital …

performance of some markets especially SMEs. Market orientation which plays a significant role in marketing and give rise to the …

The importance of collaboration for firm level innovation has been well established but much of the research focuses on … innovation and external collaboration and between future product innovation and past abandonment in small and medium sized firms … level of new product introduction than firms that did not have any external collaboration. Further, firms with past …

collaborate with external sources of knowledge. The current study analyses the collaboration between SMEs and academia over an …Due to a variety of barriers to develop innovation, small and medium enterprises (SMEs) find it necessary to … new joint research unit. Data was collected from a local group of SMEs that collaborated as dyads with academia supported …

and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). This article investigates the importance of absorptive capacity created and … accumulated in R&D efforts and in qualified human resources, on SMEs' capabilities to collaborate with other firms, with … SMEs located in the Lombardy region (Italy). Probit model estimations demonstrate that even in SMEs absorptive capacity has …

and growth of small firms. Furthermore, innovation policies that mandate collaboration are likely to significantly …