This paper analyzes how technological collaboration acts as an input to the innovation process and allows small and medium-sized enterprises to bridge the innovation gap with their bigger counterparts. Based on a large longitudinal sample of Spanish manufacturing firms, the results show that...

Globalization, technological advances and the demands of international competition have driven firms to develop activities in their value chains abroad. Although this phenomenon — known as offshoring — is not new, it has undeniably gained in importance over the last decade. And the scope,...