Knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) collaborate with manufacturers to increase
their knowledge, stimulate innovation, and support the implementation of service-oriented …

Purpose–The paper has been developed from a critical review of available literature drawn
from the micro firm, managerial capability and innovation management fields. The paper …

Human resources are very important in a business; however, the return on investment in
human resources is longer than in fixed assets, so entrepreneurs frequently consider how …

Abstract From a Service-Dominant Logic (S-DL) perspective, employees constitute operant
resources that firms can draw to enhance the outcomes of innovation efforts. While research …

From the perspective that a region's industrial development mostly builds upon existing local
capability endowments to form a trajectory of related diversifications, we argue that regions …

Most studies on the relationship between space and innovation have focused on local
factors to explain spatial variations in the innovation performance of firms. Few papers have …

This study deepens our knowledge of organisational routines and activities in the innovation
process of low-and medium-technology (LMT) industries. To accomplish this, it explores how …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to test the major determinants of technological
(product and process) innovation persistence and provides evidence of the significant role of …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between innovative
culture, innovation efforts, and their performance among knowledge-intensive business …

Knowledge Intensive Business Services (KIBS) are intermediary firms which specialise in
knowledge screening, assessment and evaluation, and trade professional consultancy …