In the behavioural and evolutionary perspectives it is usually supposed that firms’ performance depends significantly on their exploration activities, because they enlarge firms’ knowledge base. The analysis has been here focused on accessing external knowledge, that is acquiring and...

CIOPS (Cognitive Inter-organizational Production System) is an agent-based model that integrates industry structural aspects and agents’ cognitive characteristics. A demand-driven industry, whose profitability depends on the quality of suppliers’ products, is represented by a three-stage...