Sustainable product innovation is a key issue facing agri-food companies to maintain and
increase their competitiveness. Based on a sample of 320 international agri-food companies …

Purpose The current competitive system, complex and rapidly changing, knowledge
represents one of the main strategic resources for organizations. Agri-food organizations …

Background The capability of agro-food firms to innovate positively influences their profits
and growth. Accordingly, the literature has tried to comprehend innovation phenomena …

This paper examines interactions between the presence of top-ranked universities and other
conditions that encourage regional competitiveness. Fuzzy-set qualitative comparative …

Many rural regions are characterised by low technology-intensive activities. Their
predominant focus is often on primary, agri-food, and natural resources and services …

Strategic management research has demonstrated the importance of firm resources and
industry structure as drivers of profitability. However, less is known about how factors related …

This study identifies the conditions that, at a regional level, facilitate the emergence of
technological and non-technological innovation. One of the most promising lines in the …

The effects of European innovation and cohesion policies are very uneven throughout both
regions and industries. Moreover, there are often only descriptive impact assessments of …

Purpose Besides small-and medium-sized enterprises'(SMEs) constraints, there is a lack of
critical observations of the human capital model naturally inspiring themselves from within …

A key element of regional growth is its ability to transform knowledge into innovation. This
research combines a group of indicators which define innovative regions with a rurality …