The strategy literature suggests that concerted attention to technical performance improves innovation and socio-economic development. The institutional orientated literature, on the other hand, suggests that the attention to conformance for legitimacy leads to innovation and socio-economic...

Manufacturing companies introduce services to offer customized solutions and thereby differentiate from the competition through service innovation. At the same time, firms use the absorptive capacity to identify and acquire external knowledge. The research domains of servitization and absorptive...

This study evaluates the research productivity of universities and research institutes in Asia based on publications in Science and Nature. We find that Chinese institutions dominate the league. The recent rise of China is largely attributed to international collaboration with prominent U.S. and...

The fields of Science, Technology, and Innovation (STI) in the European Union have been largely based on international cooperation among member countries but also extended to third countries. Geopolitical trends are currently reinforcing the role of technological sovereignty as a key driver of...

In The Nature of the Firm, Ronald Coase explains how firms represent a suspension of the market mechanism. The allocation of activities depends on the relative costs of organizing activities within the firm versus direct reliance on the market. Despite Coase’s insight, economists often treat...