Companies face an expanding set of choices about where to locate their innovation activity, both within their home countries and abroad. This location choice also requires firms to make a simultaneous choice about the organizational structure of innovation activity : almost by definition,...

This study examines the nature and role of knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) in the innovation system. KIBS have been found to be important users and disseminators of knowledge. This study assesses their role in creating new knowledge. In addition, issues related to management of...

This empirical study examines small firms strategies towards appropriating the returns to their investments in innovation and finds that they are qualitatively different from those found in earlier studies of more generally representative samples of firms. First, few of the smallest firms appear...