The innovation value chain (IVC) divides the innovation process into three separate links or activities: Knowledge … Ireland and Switzerland. Both economies are small, very open and depend significantly on innovation to maintain competitive … advantage. In recent years, however, R&D and innovation growth in Ireland has been markedly stronger than that in Switzerland …

Cross-functional teams play a potentially important part in the innovation process enabling knowledge sharing, the … complementarities which may arise when cross-functional teams are used in different elements of the innovation process in UK and German … manufacturing plants. Using optimal combinations of cross-functional teams in the innovation process increases innovation success in …

existence of complementarities in the use of external networking between stages of the innovation process in a sample of UK and … combination of innovation activities in which to implement external networking. Broadly, there is more evidence of …

on innovation performance. Networking and boundary-spanning activities are also increasingly recognised as important … contributors to innovation success. In this article we attempt to discover whether these factors are associated: in particular, is … there any link between plant location, agglomeration effects and the extent of outsourcing in the innovation process? Using …