Purpose: For the specific topic of multinationals in clusters, both regional strands and international business and management literatures address the topic from different yet intertwined perspectives. This study aims to facilitate the integration of the conversations and the distinct...

Purpose: Industry 4.0 or digitization, from a regional innovation system (RIS) and policy perspective to improve regional innovation, is over-looked. Specifically, this paper aims to focus on analyzing the nascent European Commission (EC) digital innovation hub (DIH) program, designed for...

This article contributes to the study of process innovation as a growth strategy for SMEs, enriching and complementing the well-researched debate about product innovation. Thus, under-researched process innovation strategies are analyzed, and their antecedents and innovative performance...

This paper analyses how the internal resources of small- and medium-sized enterprises determine access (<italic>learning processes</italic>) to technology centres (TCs) or industrial research institutes (<italic>innovation infrastructure</italic>) in traditional low-tech clusters. These interactions basically represent traded...

The cluster literature assumes that technology gatekeepers (TGs) shape a district's learning process and its evolution. However, analysis of the resilience of TGs, and their role across different stages of the cluster life cycle (CLC), is absent. Instead, most of the evidence that has been...

Organizational innovation and its effects, and the influence on them of technological innovations, have been under-researched. In this paper the specific impacts that technological product and process innovations have on organizational innovation performance are disentangled. Analysis of 9369...