general. While studies on market oriented product development have identified several general dimensions of market knowledge … used in product innovation, the nature of market knowledge that is specifically important in the chemical industry remains … unclear. Because firm-relevant knowledge resources are increasingly seen as being industry specific, filling this gap becomes …

The present paper proposes a new way of thinking regarding the relation between innovation and knowledge using a … Physics-borrowed model, trying to prove whether knowledge resources can "flow" (be percolated) in a network or a grid, in … order to be transformed in technological innovation. In the Knowledge Flow Percolation Model center, human beings are seen …

knowledge and ways of knowledge combination in innovation processes. Innovation Biographies allow capturing relationships …, contextual settings and different kinds of knowledge and enable insights into the evolvement and development of innovations. By … reconstructed including the evolution of related knowledge. Data collection is able to transcend sectoral as well as local, regional …

spatially or organisationally separated? To what extent are knowledge-creating activities subject to organisational … knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS). Thereby we provide a conceptual contribution to the debate on the globalisation of …, multi-scalar nature. In analysing ODIP in a knowledge-intensive industry, we contribute to the debate about the ' new …

Innovative activity is performed to a considerable extent in the service sector, namely within the so-called knowledge … access to knowledge through networking and cooperation is of utmost importance for innovative activity in the KIBS sector …. Access to knowledge from universities and research institutions is particularly important for radical innovation …

explain and the stocks of knowledge available in a society, be it individually or collectively. I find that the aggregate … number of knowledge units in a society increases more slowly, the more naive its inhabitants are. I also find that the …In this paper I propose a novel abstract mechanism for the creation and diffusion of knowledge and use an agent based …

Knowledge Intensive Business Services (KIBS) are widely argued to be important actors in innovation systems. They are … active both innovating themselves, and by providing their clients with important knowledge and learning opportunities. This … study uses survey data to investigate the mechanisms of knowledge transfer and innovativeness improvement through the …

Innovative ideas have unique properties arising from low communication costs. But ideas come from knowledge that is … costly to communicate. “Formalizing” knowledge — codifying, developing standards, etc. — reduces these costs. In a simple …, knowledge is formalized, new technology replaces old and patents increase innovation incentives. In the other, knowledge is not …

pharma should either build a critical mass of disease area knowledge or diversify projects over different DA's in order to … obtain higher success probabilities. Projects in which a firm has built a critical mass of disease knowledge (through at … interpret this finding as knowledge spillovers from external to internal projects, as the limited number of external projects …