In recent years, innovation processes involve more heterogenous actors inside and outside the firm. Little is known … however about the spatial impact of this organisational decomposition of innovation processes (ODIP): Does it lead to a … geographical dispersion of innovation activities as well? Furthermore, which parts of the innovation process are carried out …

sector level, focusing on their role in innovation processes, little attention has been paid to the knowledge workers within … the micro-level are central to understand how KIBS can drive innovation in regional and national economies by contributing …

innovation biographies. …

The paper focuses on the territorial shaping of knowledge dynamics as one of the driving forces for innovation … ongoing restructuring of global value chains and the changes in the organization of innovation 'combinatorial knowledge … dynamics' gain a more prominent role in innovation. Firms are facing an increasing need to combine heterogeneous knowledge …

The paper presents the methodology of Innovation Biographies that has been designed to study the time-space dynamics of … knowledge and ways of knowledge combination in innovation processes. Innovation Biographies allow capturing relationships … following the process of creation with specific interviewing methods and triangulation, the biography of an innovation is …