Firms compete increasingly in an open innovation environment. Search strategies for external knowledge become therefore … are built through internal or external R&D activities) and the munificence of its innovation environment. We test these … its breadth. Moreover, we find that scarce innovation environments favor deep search strategies while breadth is more …

known about how the direction of search strategies influences innovation performance. In this paper, we argue that firms … that being open for innovation generally pays off. However, both moderating factors have a crucial role to play: On the one … novel knowledge and to enhance innovation performance. We develop targeted management recommendations based on these results. …

internationalization process. We contribute to this research stream by establishing theoretical links with the emerging open innovation … with regard to the effect of open innovation strategies on internationalization performance. Our results show that both the …

Innovationsaktivitäten mit externem Know-how zu verknüpfen. Chesbrough (2003) prägt dafür das Konzept „Open Innovation.“ Der zentrale … konzeptionelle Beitrag dieser Arbeit besteht darin, existierende Forschungsarbeiten zum Thema Open Innovation um die Chancen und … Innovation nicht nur die Öffnung von Innovationsaktivitäten über Unternehmensgrenzen hinweg, sondern auch jenseits von nationalen …

leadership. Apart from this strategic advantage we observe that foreign external sources of innovation are generally not superior …

for innovation at home. We suggest a combination of three factors to identify and explain such innovation strategies … customers as a source for innovation that is more beneficial to standardized products and becomes more feasible if the lead … regulation. Hence, companies optimize or augment their innovation activities by invoking ideas from foreign suppliers. Then again …

hardly be any doubt about the important role of this sector as an engine for employment, growth and innovation in Europe, and … restructuring, trade and foreign direct investment, innovation, regulation, and industry policy – and put a special focus on the new … Perspective.- T. Cleff, G. Licht, A. Spielkamp, W. Urban: Innovation and Competitiveness.- T. Cleff, O. Heneric, A. Spielkamp …