Innovations, commercialized by new or old established firms, located at the core of industrial renewal process. The innovation concept has suffered transformations, along with the evolution of the models that try to explain and understand the innovation process. The innovative process corresponds to all activities that generate technological changes and the dynamic interaction between them, not...

This paper presents empirical evidence on the effect of external knowledge sourcing strategies on the development of both product and process innovations, and assesses the degree to which such effects are influenced by the firm’s internal technological capacities. In our analysis, we consider two strategies for acquiring external knowledge (BUYING and COOPERATING) and two types of external sour...

a r t i c l e i n f o The first decade of the twenty-first century has witnessed a significant increase in technology strategy research related to innovation capacity and technological diversity. Recent studies in the field of innovation capacity investigate whether the underlying performance differential among firms is attributable to organizational slack resources. However, few scholars have ...

The CareRabbit has been introduced as a technological innovation in the care for children, enabling family and friends to stay in touch while the child is hospitalized. This study addresses influence of this innovation on the wellbeing of the children, and uses the validated KINDL questionnaire, eliciting information from children and parents at the end of hospitalization. A baseline and an exp...

Entrepreneurship & Technology. Scientific advances are accelerating, changing technological and business paradigms while impacting firm organizations and industrial structures. One could assume technology entrepreneurship, the creation of new ventures based on technological innovations, is well researched. However, as Shane & Venkataraman (2003) note technology entrepreneurship while resting be...

This report is a very preliminary summary of the results of a study on the organization-level capacities that enable an organization to generate multiple new products or services over time. The intent is to develop the basis to assess the innovativeness of an organization, understand what managers need to change to improve their innovativeness, and identify how they can manage that change. This...

This paper explores the relevance of technological innovations for internationalisation manufacturing firms. It differentiates between two innovations: eco-innovations and generic-technological (i.e., intelligent manufacturing). By pooling Flash Eurobarometer-415 -433 surveys, we use a broad firm-level sample 4954 European non-European (the US Switzerland) Appling Heckman selection model, findi...