/her reliance on alternative sources of knowledge for exploring new business opportunities. The extant literature that is at the … crossroads between sources of knowledge and the experiential and intellectual base of an entrepreneur (i.e., dimensions of his …/her human capital) suggests that it is through experience and through education that an entrepreneur obtains knowledge. Using …

This research investigates deals with the impact of various innovation activities on innovation output by using Spanish … CIS3 data on 3,247 innovative firms and applying several Knowledge Production Functions. It is confirmed that different … innovation activities lead to differences in both the propensity to innovate and innovation output, depending on the …

The rise of knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) may be considered as one of the decisive trends of economic … subsystem approach to input-output matrix analysis to study the vertical integration of knowledge-based business services into … manufacturing sectors. To date, companies increasingly rely on outside innovation for new products and processes and have become …

two activities: knowledge search and knowledge deployment. We predict theoretically that domestic firms have advantages … when they search for knowledge due to their embeddedness in the host country. However, this increased embeddedness reduces … the degree of novelty of their knowledge pool. Foreign MNC subsidiaries therefore have advantages in knowledge deployment …

incentives for firms to publish: (i) accessing external knowledge and resources; (ii) attracting and retaining researchers; (iii …