governance view of collaboration, and test these on an extensive panel dataset of innovation-active Dutch firms during 1996 … value chain integration in innovation processes. Positive interrelation also exists in vertical alliances, as immediate past …

absorptive capacity and hence the effective utilization of external knowledge. The scope economies due the combination of …

Alliance formation is often described as a mechanism used by firms to increase voluntary knowledge transfers. Access to … external knowledge has been increasingly recognized as a main source of a firm's innovativeness. In this paper we examine …

to undesired outcomes such as 'partnership mal-functioning' and 'instability' to the degree to which innovation … external activities (in terms of different types of partners) perform best. Moreover, a persistent product oriented innovation …

impact of two such external knowledge acquisition strategies, 'buy' and 'cooperate', on firm's product innovation performance …There is growing evidence that firms increasingly adopt open innovation practices. In this paper we investigate the … while both 'buy' and 'cooperate' have a positive effect on innovation, there is little statistical evidence that using them …