Purpose The ecosystem perspective on innovation and business has emerged as the secret
sauce of innovative organizations. While its theoretical foundations are premised on …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to introduce a new type of ba, called “vocation ba” and
to describe the main aspects of this type of ba as well as its methods. Design/methodology …

Purpose Existing literature is limited in its ability to consider start-ups as a knowledge broker
to trigger innovation in a supply chain ecosystem (SCE). In a traditional SCE, start-ups are …

Knowledge has become one of the most important driving forces for business success.
Knowledge management helps organizations to find, select, organise, distribute, and …

Within the management literature, there is an emergent discourse on horizontal
collaboration among small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), whereby individual …

Drawing on a dynamic capabilities perspective and a resource-based view, this article
analyzes the relationship between absorptive capacity and corporate entrepreneurship, and …

The field of extension is quite dynamic and new configurations and alternative extension
systems and approaches have been emerging. This chapter explores the recent …

Collaboration among different stakeholders is acknowledged as a driver of innovation. This
is especially true in the context of regional and national innovation systems. However …

This chapter outlines the after-effects of an experiment in urban planning. Urbanisation was
equated with development as a means of rendering rural populations more amenable to …

Scholars researching innovation are unanimous about the huge innovation potential in
combining different fields of knowledge. Structural holes in innovation networks are …