Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to identify the recurrences in the empirical evidences
that link open innovation (OI) actions and innovation performance in European countries. It …

Innovation labs are increasingly adopted as an organizational and management initiative to
catalyse innovation and support the development of an organizational innovation capacity …

Crowdfunding is now a commonly used tool for innovating entrepreneurs, yet many
unresolved questions surrounding crowdfunding's effect on innovation remain. Often …

This research examines the individual and combined effects of internal integration (II) and
external integration (EI) on product innovation. Two combined effects—balanced integration …

Design Thinking (see Glen et al., 2015) emphasize a deep customer understanding,
external observation and iteration for innovation with a constant focus on the business …

Creativity is an essential source of innovation for small and medium enterprises (SMEs).
Moreover, one challenge in SMEs is to transform the novel and useful ideas that arise from …

External search strategies remain ineffective without the ability of the firm to communicate
and share internally what has been absorbed from the environment. However, most of the …

The Continuous Innovation Network (CINet) is a global network studying the innovation
processes through which the synergistic combination between exploratory and exploitatory …

This paper set out to investigate the ways training and development impacts on firm
innovative performance as well as the moderating role of knowledge transfer received on …

The effects of technological and non-technological innovation affecting firm performance are
investigated. Technological innovation involves new product development, while non …