Purpose – This introduction paper to the special issue on “The twenty‐first century knowledge‐based value drivers of innovation and sustainable development” aims to focus on such relationships between knowledge, learning, capabilities, innovation and competitive advantage in different...

The aerospace industry is characterized by an intensive net of relationships and information in the supply chain. The small and medium enterprises (SMEs) working for this kind of industry needs to be innovative and adopt information and communication technologies (ICT) tools to work with bigger...

Start-ups, as small, new companies, suffer from liabilities of size and lack of experience when entering market competition. Research has suggested that relationships with other organisations might be a solution to balance such liabilities. While several studies underline the importance of...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine two approaches to measure and diagnose innovation excellence. Design/methodology/approach – The paper is a conceptual model for innovation excellence and a measurement system is developed. A Danish survey forms the empirical basis for the...

Purpose – This introduction paper to the special issue on “Managing intellectual capital dimensions for organizational value creation” aims to focus on the relationships between intellectual capital (IC), innovation, performance improvement and competitive advantage in private and public...