Nowadays there is an increasing trend of leveraging on external knowledge for innovation, which is termed as open innovation. While open innovation can help organizations obtain complementary knowledge from collaborators, it is likely to have inherent challenges in knowledge absorption. The differences of interorganizational knowledge can seriously inhibit the ability of the focal organization ...

Rapid changes around the world imposes on all organizations today an imperative to be better, faster, more creative, more competitive and better business and they should be constantly innovative. This highlights the need for their development based on innovation strategic planning process, the result of knowledge and innovation in / outside the organization, creating a favorable social environm...

The knowledge service platform is seen as the vital intermediaries in innovation cycle, and for users to locate, exchange and acquire knowledge in a systematic way. It is increasingly recognizing the powerful role that knowledge service platform provide in building a national innovation capacity. The knowledge service platforms in the China’s national innovation system, mostly based on the digi...

This research aims to identify which factors best explain business dynamics and innovation capacity in the continents of Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America Caribbean, North America. To achieve this, data from Global Entrepreneurship Monitor Competitiveness Report is used. The linear regression method utilized with stepwise procedure for analysis. It possible ascertain that, a view increasing A...

In the era of open innovation, the capability to conduct collaborative research and development has become a key indicator of absorptive capacity and innovation competitiveness. However, the literature addressing open innovation has a focus on developed economies. New evidence from the South African National R&D Survey, together with supplementary data, make it possible to gain a greater unders...