Purpose Little is known, about the role played by start-ups in open innovation networks. Start-
ups–due to their nature of new and emerging companies–can largely benefit from the …

Open Innovation (OI) assumes that businesses combine external and internal ideas as the
primary means to accelerate internal innovation or access the market to commercialise their …

There are important theoretical reasons to consider family firms as differing from non-family
ones with reference to technology strategy and innovation. However, for a long time, theory …

The debate around the different management practices of family firms, compared with non-
family ones, is largely supported by important theoretical reasons and a huge stream of …

This paper studies the functional specialization of SMEs' technological competence and its
moderating role in the effect of external R&D on their innovative performance. Technological …

The restaurant industry plays an essential role in the US economy. Approximately 26% of
small-and medium-sized enterprise restaurants fail during their first year of business …

The way firms innovate has notably changed in recent years. A clear example is the
manufacturing sector which has been experiencing a new revolution in production and …

[ES] Esta investigación propone un modelo que orienta a las PYMES en sus procesos para
incrementar su capacidad innovadora. La metodología utilizada se basó en la …

Methods. The comparison between these two different technologies, the standard and the
innovative one, was conducted using a Health Technology Assessment (HTA). In particular …

The knowledge on manufacturing SMEs and Open Innovation (OI) is limited and therefore,
this article describes and evaluates how manufacturing SMEs apply and benefit from OI …