What is our current understanding of innovation and how many types of innovation do we
know? Broadly, innovation landscapes are characterized by well-established categories …

Purpose–This paper aims to contribute to defining the concepts of boundary spanner,
gatekeeper and knowledge broker. Design/methodology/approach–A review of the literature …

The digital transformation of SMEs – a new knowledge broker called the digital innovation
hub | Emerald Insight Books and journals Case studies Expert Briefings Open Access Publish …

This paper analyses how knowledge-based practices adopted by innovation intermediaries
enable them to generate value for themselves when collaborating with their clients. While …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between
transformational leadership (TL) and the innovative behavior of Korean workers. To this end …

Online communities are increasingly important to organizations and the general public, but
there is little theoretically based research on what makes some online communities more …

In this time of wikis, social networks, and user-generated content por-tals, terms such as
crowdsourcing, 1 co-creation, 2 user innovation, 3 vir-tual customer integration, 4 and open …

An increasing number of firms are hosting virtual customer environments (VCEs) to involve
their customers in product development and product support activities. While the benefits to …

Innovation and the customer participation are central issues in research focusing on the
performance of firms. However, the current literature offers little guidance on the extent of …

Start-up collaboration units (SCUs) are organizational units specifically created by large
companies to facilitate collaboration with start-ups within their corporate innovation …