Based on the spatial economics and regional innovation cooperation theory, this paper modified and redefined the spatial knowledge spillover model by Caniels, and then made empirical analysis on the influence factors of knowledge exchange among members in the innovation network via panel data method. This paper takes forward fixed traffic distance. Then it has proved the important influence fro...

The article analyzes factors stimulating firms’ capacity for marketing innovation in terms of the design and packaging of goods and services. The data were obtained from the 4th Community Innovation Survey. The results of the logistic regression show that R&D activities relating to internal R&D activities; acquisition of machinery, equipment, and software; acquisition of other external knowledg...

The current lack of integration of Governance Risk and Compliance (GRC), Innovation, IT and Strategy results in lost opportunities for growth. If a recent KPMG (2011) Report reflects the true picture, less than 10% of businesses today demonstrate full integration of GRC activities with their business strategy. This paper argues for Board level support for better ‘Absorptive Capacity’ across the...

Despite an exceptional economic performance achieved over the last decade, Peru still lags behind other middle-income Latin American economies in terms of per capita income and productivity. The Peruvian economy remains relatively undiversified, largely dependent on natural resources. The national innovation system is under development, weakly integrated, and underfunded, with few incentives fo...

This paper characterizes the innovation strategy of manufacturing firms and examines the relation between the innovation strategy and important industry-, firm-and innovation-specific characteristics using Belgian data from the Eurostat Community Innovation Survey. In addition to important size effects explaining innovation, we find that high perceived risks and costs and low appropriability of...

Improving the process of finding and acquiring new information technology (IT) has been called "one of the most persistently challenging topics in the IT field" (Fichmm 1992, p. 95). In order to improve the process, we must first identify the components imbcdded within it. We employ the concept of absorptive capacity (Cohen and Levinthal 1990) to focus and synthesize research in innovation, com...

Purpose Shifting demand and ever-shorter production cycles pressure manufacturing flexibility. Although the literature has established positive effect of firm's absorptive capacity on flexibility, separate role innovation competencies exploitation exploration in such a relationship is still under-investigated. In this study, authors examine how these affect Design/methodology/approach The use s...