adapt their strategies, focusing on innovation aspects in order to meet consumer requirements and to compete on the market …. The literature shows that firms’ market orientation and marketing capabilities are very important for innovation in food … industries to guarantee that innovation reflects market needs. The purpose of this paper is to analyse the relationship between …

innovation behavior of coffee growers. Drawing from network data that depict the internal and outbound connectedness of producers … innovation. The influence of buyers, according to our data, is focused on certification and quality aspects, whereas development … the role of private actors in innovation among agricultural producers and, hence, design development programs in such a …

drivers of eco-innovation in the Italian wine industry on the basis of a large survey on Italian wine producers. We analyse … innovative behaviour are key drivers of eco-innovation. Therefore, according to our results, firms’ commitment to eco …-innovate does not differ substantially from other types of innovation activities. …

. Increasingly, the use of external resources for innovation – also referred as inbound open innovation in literature – is seen as a … key factor to remain innovative and hence competitive. While the impact of open innovation on the firm’s innovativeness … and performance has received quite some attention by scholars, the mechanisms that push firm to open up their innovation …