Franco, Chiara; Marzucchi, Alberto; Montresor, Sandro - Dipartimento di Economia e Management, Università … - 2011
knowledge, as distinguished from its "realized" transformation and exploitation (RAC). Based on a sample of about 10,500 firms … for an area of 3 EU countries (Italy, Germany and Spain) we find that the firm's reliance on external knowledge in general …-off in the exploitation of the externally assimilated knowledge is suggested. …