Entrepreneurship, is an idea and a process in which an individual or group identifies new opportunities and exploits them successfully. Universities as knowledge producing and knowledge distributing institutions play a greater role in industrial innovation. In fact the emergence of entrepreneurial university is a response to the increasing importance of knowledge in national and regional system...

One of the most critical issues for building innovation capacity in organisations is the acquisition and maintenance of knowledge. As knowledge is the basis of human capital, then the ability to attract, retain and engage talent is argued to be an important element of innovation. By attracting and retaining good staff, the organisation is retaining organisational knowledge which is necessary pa...

This research examines the relationship between ERP systems and innovation from a knowledgebased perspective. Building upon the multi-dimensional conceptualization of absorptive capacity by Zahra and George [Zahra, S.A., George, G., 2002. Absorptive capacity: a review, reconceptualization, and extension. Academy of Management Journal 27 (2), 185–203], a theoretical framework is developed to spe...

CHAPTER 1 – INTRODUCTION CHAPTER 2 – ABSORPTIVE CAPACITY AND SOCIAL NETWORK RESEARCH 2.1 The absorptive capacity approach 2.1.2. The process of absorptive capacity 2.2 The social network approach 2.3 Integrating absorptive capacity and social network theory CHAPTER 3 THE MICRO-FOUNDATIONS OF ABSORPTIVE CAPACITY 3.1 The Social Structure of Innovation 3.2 External knowledge 3.2.1 Scientific vs. I...

The dynamic impact of industrial cluster life cycle on regional innovation capacity Xiaohui Jia, Minghui Jiang & Tao Ma To cite this article: Xiaohui Jia, Minghui Jiang & Tao Ma (2015) The dynamic impact of industrial cluster life cycle on regional innovation capacity, Economic Research-Ekonomska Istraživanja, 28:1, 807-829, DOI: 10.1080/1331677X.2015.1084475 To link to this article: http://dx....

in knowledge-based economy, knowledge has a public good and non-rivalry nature. firms build their own knowledge stock not only by means of internal r&d and collaboration with partners, but also by means of previously spilled over knowledge of other firms and public research laboratories (such as universities). firms based on their absorptive capacity, and level of intra-industry and extra-i...

We examine how teams working on radical innovation develop a novel type of Absorptive Capacity (AC) to make use of external knowledge. In the setting of the semiconductor industry, which has long been an industrial reference for the literature on innovation, we are able to compare AC in incremental innovation and AC in radical innovation. Our central contribution is a framework of how radical i...

eco-innovation is an actual topic as it links two key issues, innovation and sustainability. theenvironmental respect and innovation are important drivers of competitiveness. firms are willing to knowwhat to do to improve their eco-innovative capacity. the objective of this paper is to empirically determinewhat common characteristics have the most environmental oriented innovative firms. we ana...