Abstract In 2010, the European Union adopted the notion 'smart'in its new ten-year growth
strategy Europe 2020 stating that Europe should become a smart, sustainable, and inclusive …

We use a representative and cross-country comparable sample of manufacturing firms
(EFIGE) to document patterns of interaction among firm-level internationalization, innovation …

This paper contributes to the literature on innovation in agri-food sectors. It presents a
quantitative analysis of how innovation and innovation capacities differ between agricultural …

This paper explores the patterns of innovation and collaboration by using unique regional
survey data on more than 600 Swedish firms. The data also include the smallest firms, which …

This study identifies key mechanisms linking multinationality with the knowledge advantages
of multinational corporations (MNCs). These mechanisms are the absorption of new …

This study investigates the association between the intensity of innovation activities that
firms perform offshore with host-country inventors (IHCI) and the time before back-shoring, a …

Empirical support for the process and mechanism of interactions with knowledge-intensive
business services (KIBS) is scarce, particularly with regard to small and medium …

This study identifies two categories of exploration for competence-creating subsidiaries of
contemporary multinational corporations (MNCs) by taking both the subsidiary's and the …

The smart society is a global movement that is highlighted in line with digital technology
advances. Most studies of the smart society focus on the use of technology to aid human …

The contemporary world economy–here referred to as a knowledge economy–is
characterized by the ascendance of knowledge as a major factor of production and renewal …