Policy brief: External knowledge sources and the cost and benefits of innovation
Summarizes the research methods and outcomes of the study and discusses several policy implications
Abstract
The importance of external knowledge sources to firm-level innovation has been for long underlined by economic and management researchers as well as business practitioners. Despite open innovation’s increasing prominence in both practice and research, the role of the context in which open innovation in developing countries is conducted is not well investigated. A team of researchers of Radboud University Nijmegen carried out a study on external knowledge sources and highlighted context when considering the relationship between openness and innovative performance. The study is part of the DFID-funded research project entitled ‘Enabling Innovation and Productivity Growth in Low Income Countries (EIP-LIC)’ implemented by Tilburg University and Radboud University Nijmegen in The Netherlands. The original working paper of the study is entitled ‘External Knowledge Sources and the Cost and Benefits of Innovation in Developing Countries’ (2015) by Annelies van Uden, Joris Knoben and Patrick Vermeulen
Citation
Tilburg University (2016) Policy brief: External knowledge sources and the cost and benefits of innovation
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