services are explored: i) firms with a high level of absorptive capacity are more likely to collaborate on innovation than … firms with a relatively low level of absorptive capacity; ii) given that the firms collaborate on innovation, the main … innovation partner of knowledge intensive service firms with a high level of absorptive capacity is likely to be located further …

dominate economic analyses, including innovation studies. As a reaction to this a new strand of service innovation studies has … emerged within the last decade. These studies do not aim to compare innovation in services directly with innovation in … manufacturing, rather they aim a studying distinctive features of service innovation. This has among other things resulted in the …