Organizing the Innovation Process: Complementarities in Innovation Networking

James H. Love, Stephen Roper · 2009 · Industry and Innovation

Summary. This paper examines how manufacturing plants in the UK and Germany use external networks across different stages of innovation. German firms show stronger complementarities between external networking activities, while UK firms tend to substitute external networks across stages. The findings reveal that optimal innovation strategies differ between countries and that the relationship between internal and external knowledge sources is more complex than previously understood.

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  title   = {Organizing the Innovation Process: Complementarities in Innovation Networking},
  author  = {James H. Love and Stephen Roper},
  journal = {Industry and Innovation},
  year    = {2009},
  doi     = {10.1080/13662710902923776},
  url     = {https://doi.org/10.1080/13662710902923776}
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DOI

10.1080/13662710902923776

Countries

United Kingdom, Germany

Regions

Europe

Categories

innovation-networks, regional-innovation-systems, general-innovation

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