Three related questions are addressed: Why was the work of the European documentalists largely ignored in the USA before the Second World War? What was the "information science versus library science" argument about? Technological innovation was a vital force in library science in the late 19th century and again after 1950. Why was it not a vital force inbetween? Examination of the technologica...

2 0 0 7 • Vo l I I I s sue IV echnological innovation often stimulates economic growth by creating new products, improving efficiency, and opening doors to new markets. Yet many rural communities believe these advantages are off limits to them—because their towns are either too small or too remote for their entrepreneurs to create technological innovations. In reality, though, the advantages of...

This paper surveys the empirical evidence on the link between innovation and economic growth in the light of New Growth Theory. It considers a number of different measures of innovation, such as R&D spending, patenting, and innovation counts, as well as the pervasive effect of technological spillovers between firms, industries, and countries. There are three main conclusions. The first is that ...

This study proposes a framework for the empirical research of cross-border innovation networks dealing with network characteristics, resource and information flows, and decision-making concerning technological innovations. The authors develop a conceptual model that relates network properties, flows of knowledge, and tangible resources with the likelihood of a decision on open innovation, close...

The technological cooperation activities among enterprises, universities and research institutes are considered be necessary for accessing complementary technological resources and improving the technology innovation capability. One of the important approaches to cooperation is constructing cooperation innovation alliance. But cooperation innovation alliances are risky. How to choose the right ...

This paper presents empirical evidence on the effects 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 sou...

In this paper we assess how important “industry” is to innovation. Our empirical estimates suggest that “industry factors” are, at most, only moderately important for R&D, innovation and innovative performance at the firm level. The results offer empirical support to recent evolutionary theorizing stressing that firms have heterogeneous innovative capabilities and hence differ in terms of perfo...