nicht nur komplementäre Ressourcen und Kompetenzen, sondern stellen gerade in grenznahen Regionen eine Möglichkeit dar, innovative Potentiale des jeweiligen Nachbarlandes für betriebliche Innovationsaktivitäten nutzbar zu machen. Für die Fallbeispiele Baden und Elsaß soll geklärt werden,...

Information and knowledge are important prerequisites for innovation activity in firms. One important means of acquiring coplementary knowledge are innovation networks. Depending on their absortive capacity and knowledge base, firms develop different abilities to access and utilise external...

A key feature of the knowledge-based economy is a remarkable increase in the number, foundation rates, and employees of knowledge-intensive business service firms (KIBS). KIBS are knowledge-intensive, in the sense that they are founded upon highly specialised knowledge. Based on the assumption...