This paper assesses the role of outsourcing and inter-firm collaboration to product innovation in Western New York …. A collaborative relationship with external entities was hypothesized to support product innovation; however this was not …

ouput innovation, for small and medium enterprises (SME) playing in a local economic system. Given the intangible nature of … many techno organisational innovation and networking strategies, original recent survey data for manufacturing and services … activities and R&D in a local SME oriented system in Northern Italy. We first introduce a methodological framework to empirically …

environmental concerns. Investments in research and innovation, which facilitate integration of external knowledge in food chain … networks with the assistance of innovation intermediaries. In particular, we explore the roles of innovation intermediaries in … knowledge acquisition, knowledge assimilation, knowledge, transformation, and knowledge exploitation in open innovation …

European Research & Innovation (R&I) funding programmes, in particular Horizon Europe, offer great opportunities for … & Development personnel, SMEs consider collaborative R&I projects an ideal “Open Innovation” (OI) environment to jointly develop new … (typically up to Technology Readiness Level 6), thus stimulating and improving the effectiveness of collaborative innovation. To …

The existing literature on SME internationalization has inadequately integrated joint innovation capabilities … examine how joint innovation capabilities affect exploratory innovation through the mediating role of organizational … collaborative innovation capabilities with exploratory innovation. Additionally, the degree of internationalization significantly …