Roper, Stephen; Arvanitis, Spyros - In: Research Policy 41 (2012) 6, pp. 1093-1106
The innovation value chain (IVC) divides the innovation process into three separate links or activities: knowledge … gathering, knowledge transformation and knowledge exploitation. Here, we report a comparative panel data analysis of the IVC in … firms’ innovation behaviour in each country: strong complementarities emerge between external knowledge sources and between …