Innovation is often seen as carried out by highly educated labour in R&D intensive companies with strong ties to … leading centers of excellence in the scientific world. Seen from this angle innovation is a typical “first world” activity …. There is, however, another way to look at innovation that goes significantly beyond this high-tech picture. In this, broader …

Firms increasingly rely upon external actors for their innovation process. Interaction with these actors may occur … analyses the reasons why firms consider it to be important to develop formal and informal external linkages in the innovation … process by looking at the role played by firms’ innovative strategies and by taking into account that a complementarity or …

Although innovation is not a new topic for scholarly research, the academic literature on innovation was, for a long … time, not very voluminous. However, more recently innovation has become a major focus among scholars of different … exists a unified community of innovation scholars that identify themselves with innovation studies as a field rather than …

The aim of the paper is to assess heterogeneity of the innovation process. Using exploratory factor analysis on micro … data from the third Community Innovation Survey in 13 countries, we identify four factors that that can be interpreted as … research, user, external and production ingredients of innovation. All too often it is assumed that the differences between the …