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Do academia-industry R&D collaborations necessarily facilitate industrial innovation in China?: The role of technology transfer institutions
Bojun Hou, Jin Hong, Qiong Chen, Xing Shi, Yu ZhouIt is widely accepted that enterprises obtaining academic discoveries through R&D collaboration improve their innovation performance. However, it is not necessarily true in…
The ups and downs of open innovation efficiency: the case of Procter & Gamble
Chunjia Han, Stephen Thomas, Mu Yang, Yongmei CuiOpen innovation (OI) has become increasingly popular as an enterprise strategy in both industry and academia, and has been adopted, at least in part, by many companies. Despite…
An exploratory study on how SMEs are open to external sources of information
Moulay Othman Idrissi Fakhreddine, Yan CastonguayThe purpose of this paper is to draw on recent developments in the open innovation literature to explore whether the openness of SMEs to the four categories of external sources of…
Absorptive capacity, marketing capabilities, and innovation commercialisation in Nigeria
Kehinde Medase, Laura BarasaThe purpose of this paper is to investigate how specialised capabilities including absorptive capacity and marketing capabilities influence innovation commercialisation in…
Democratizing innovation processes: personal initiative in bottom-up eco-innovation
Josefine Weigt-Rohrbeck, Mai Skjøtt LinnebergPrevious work on employee-driven innovation (EDI) has demonstrated the benefits of employees’ proactive behavior in achieving success with innovations. The purpose of this paper…
How do ventures become more innovative? The effect of external search and ambidextrous knowledge integration
Zhengyun Rui, Kalle LyytinenNew ventures search for external knowledge to break through the prevailing knowledge and resource constraints. The influence of search mechanisms can be assessed against the…
Employees’ proactive behavior and innovation performance: Examining the moderating role of informal and formal controls
Mercedes Segarra-Ciprés, Ana Escrig-Tena, Beatriz García-JuanThe purpose of this paper is to analyze the degree to which employees’ proactive behavior contributes to innovation performance in firms operating in high-technology sectors…
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