The number of smart city initiatives is growing worldwide at an incredible pace. Their
ambition is to add to the competitiveness of local communities through innovation while …

The purpose of this study is to identify how open innovation variables influence the
competitive capability of manufacturing small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in a regional …

In this paper, we analyse the role of international patent collaborations in the performance of
domestic firms and how the relationship is augmented by the pre-existing capabilities of the …

Whether to cooperate with a competitor on environmental R&D is a dilemma for firms. This
paper develops a duopoly model to investigate firms' environmental R&D cooperation …

The aim of this article is to investigate the impacts of cooperative and non-cooperative R&D
strategies on product innovation and firm performance. Based on the industrial economics …

Abstract The new “Environmental Protection Law”(abbreviated as NEPL) holds milestone
significance for the construction of China's ecological legal system. However, evidence …

In this paper we analyze whether R&D cooperation improves firms' performance, and which
variables would boost R&D cooperation the most. We contribute to the literature linking two …

With the rapid change in technology, cooperative innovation based on data sharing has
become an imminent tactic for enterprises to gain competitive advantages. This paper …

We analyse the determinants of R&D cooperation for SMEs in Italy. We introduce in the
literature human capital as one of the main determinants of R&D cooperation, concentrating …

In this paper, we compare the distributions of socially optimal public funding between private
and public research sectors in cooperative and noncooperative R&D settings in the …