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44 Citations
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7 August 2018

Previous studies related to open innovation have presented piecewise implications in relation to various knowledge management capacities. The study published by Lichtenthaler and Lichtenthaler in 2009 presented a model that combines the various open...

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  • Open Access
136 Citations
12,310 Views
19 Pages

23 November 2015

This study discusses the influences of green absorptive capacity, green dynamic capacities, and green service innovation on firm performance. In order to fill the research gap, this study proposes the concept of green service innovation. The results...

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  • Open Access
26 Citations
5,284 Views
17 Pages

Adopting environmentally friendly behavior has become more than a claim. Green human resource management seems to be the solution where innovation will be a strategic lever to lead the company, with green practices, to the possession of a decisive co...

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  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,653 Views
17 Pages

Drivers of Innovation Capacity and Consequences for Open Innovation

  • Cicero Eduardo Walter,
  • Daniel Ferreira Polónia,
  • Manuel Au-Yong-Oliveira,
  • Cláudia Miranda Veloso,
  • Rafael Ângelo Santos Leite and
  • Iracema Aragão

The main objective of the present research is to identify the knowledge flows responsible for promoting the innovation capacity of Portuguese companies. Specifically, we intend to identify which variables influence Portuguese innovation capacity from...

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  • Open Access
20 Citations
4,988 Views
20 Pages

A Roadmap for Innovation Capacity in Developing Countries

  • Sylvia Novillo-Villegas,
  • Ricardo Ayala-Andrade,
  • Juan Pablo Lopez-Cox,
  • Javier Salazar-Oyaneder and
  • Patricia Acosta-Vargas

30 May 2022

Innovation capacity is a dynamic capacity linked with the achievement of competitive advantage. Several mechanisms have been proposed to evaluate this capacity. However, developing innovation capacity is a complex process, particularly for developing...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,437 Views
17 Pages

2 August 2023

Enhancing regional innovation capacity has become a realistic need to promote high-quality economic development. At present, there is no consensus on how housing prices affect regional innovation capacity. Papers in the existing literature frequently...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,876 Views
17 Pages

6 February 2023

This study aims to empirically investigate the effect of Science, Technology, and Innovation Official Development Assistance (STI ODA) on the innovative capacity of developing countries. Particularly, this study attempted to examine the moderating ef...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,159 Views
17 Pages

10 November 2022

Effectively resolving manufacturing overcapacity is an important way for China to stimulate economic vitality and achieve high-quality economic development. Although research on technological innovation to resolve overcapacity has attracted academic...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,170 Views
28 Pages

16 May 2025

Digital technology drives global industrial transformation. The synchronized development of organizational digital transformation and innovation systems is pivotal in corporate strategy and governmental governance. The dynamic interaction mechanisms...

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  • Open Access
50 Citations
7,139 Views
20 Pages

5 July 2022

Although there has been much research into green innovation, limited studies focus on the influence of internal factors on green innovation. This paper investigates whether and how two internal factors, such as green market orientation and absorptive...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,174 Views
18 Pages

Innovation is a key factor for a country’s overall national strength and core competitiveness. The spatial pattern of innovation reflects the regional differences of innovation development, which can provide guidance for the regional allocation...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,869 Views
21 Pages

Unlocking Innovation Capacity: Strategies for Micro-, Small, and Medium Enterprises in Ukrainian Agriculture

  • Viktoriya Onegina,
  • Lesia Kucher,
  • Anatolii Kucher,
  • Vitaliy Krupin,
  • Marek Kłodziński and
  • Vladyslav Logos

Innovation is a crucial driver of competitiveness and development of enterprises. Access to innovation is influenced by a multitude of factors, including, among others, an enterprise’s strategy, operation efficiency, and the availability of res...

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  • Open Access
62 Citations
11,255 Views
15 Pages

The Impact of Absorptive Capacity on Innovation: The Mediating Role of Organizational Learning

  • Rafael Sancho-Zamora,
  • Felipe Hernández-Perlines,
  • Isidro Peña-García and
  • Santiago Gutiérrez-Broncano

Although the relevant literature has already demonstrated the impact that absorptive capacity has on companies’ innovation capacity, we have found few studies that analyze the role of learning capability in this relationship. The main objective...

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  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,577 Views
30 Pages

Redeveloping the National Innovative Capacity Framework: European Union Perspective

  • Meda Andrijauskiene,
  • Daiva Dumciuviene and
  • Jovita Vasauskaite

20 December 2021

This paper aims to redevelop the national innovative capacity framework and specify the influence of its’ elements on shaping the innovation performance of the EU nations. The objects of the empirical research are the EU member states for the p...

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  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,487 Views
20 Pages

The purpose of this research is to study the factors related to the performance of the entrepreneurs who passed through the stages of business development at the university business incubators in Thailand. These factors consist of various characteris...

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  • Open Access
808 Views
27 Pages

Egypt’s Regional Innovation Capacity Disparities and New Smart City Prospects: A Quantitative Analysis

  • Mohamed Abouelhassan Ali,
  • Éva Komlósi,
  • Zoltan Orban and
  • Sara Elhadad

20 October 2025

This study evaluates the innovation capacity of Egypt’s governorates to identify their potential for developing smart cities as innovation hubs. Smart cities represent essential instruments for tackling complicated urban issues like environment...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,873 Views
18 Pages

16 December 2020

Although user innovation has been regarded as an important source of firms’ competitive advantage, the internal processes and mechanisms involved in the relationship between firms’ user innovation activities and market performance are sel...

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  • Open Access
1,251 Views
25 Pages

Exploring a Sustainable Pathway Towards Enhancing National Innovation Capacity from an Empirical Analysis

  • Sylvia Novillo-Villegas,
  • Ana Belén Tulcanaza-Prieto,
  • Alexander X. Chantera and
  • Christian Chimbo

30 July 2025

Innovation is a strategic driver of sustainable competitive advantage and long-term economic growth. This study proposes an empirical framework to support the sustained development of national innovation capacity by examining key enabling factors. Dr...

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  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,258 Views
21 Pages

17 September 2019

Behind the high development of technology, backward institution systems and imperfect incentive mechanisms are not conducive to the green transformation of the economic society in China. Meanwhile, the relative effectiveness of both technical and ins...

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  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,581 Views
24 Pages

29 June 2023

Through the methodology of a case study, this paper presents a holistic analysis of the relationship between innovation capacity, entrepreneurial orientation, flexibility, and environmental factors. Three studies were conducted in the context of chem...

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  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,095 Views
17 Pages

13 August 2021

Institutional constraints impede firms’ open innovation. They have been a challenge, obstructing growth and sustainable development. Research on open innovation has shown that the quality of institutions essentially affects innovation in firms. Hence...

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638 Views
18 Pages

25 September 2025

Although researchers have identified a strong correlation between digital platform usage and corporate sustainable innovation, a disconnect persists between the two. The primary factor causing this disconnect lies in the isolated application of digit...

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  • Open Access
25 Citations
3,388 Views
19 Pages

This paper applies a spatial econometric model to measure the impact of environmental regulation on urban innovation capacity from a spatial interaction perspective by using panel data from 41 cities in the Yangtze River Delta urban agglomeration fro...

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  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,505 Views
20 Pages

The Effects of Dynamic Absorptive Capacity on Innovation Strategy: Evidence from SMEs in a Technological Context

  • Mauricio Bedoya-Villa,
  • Elkin Pérez-Sánchez,
  • Hugo Baier-Fuentes,
  • Cesar Zapata-Molina and
  • Edith Román-Castaño

19 May 2023

Absorptive capacity and innovation strategies are determining issues for the survival of organizations in current contexts. While organizations are immersed in the knowledge society, managers face great challenges to respond to market needs and perfo...

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  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,547 Views
15 Pages

Green innovation has become an important driving force for China’s economic transformation and development. This paper selects the 2010–2020 provincial-level regions in China as samples, and adopts a multi-indicator comprehensive evaluati...

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  • Open Access
189 Citations
16,142 Views
20 Pages

5 November 2014

This study proposes a new concept, green organisational ambidexterity, that integrates green exploration learning and green exploitation learning simultaneously. Besides, this study argues that the antecedents of green organisational ambidexterity ar...

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1,765 Views
33 Pages

16 July 2025

Higher education institutions (HEIs) are increasingly called upon to both respond to and drive societal change. To better understand how HEIs can enhance their ability to innovate, an integrative literature review was conducted, examining the concept...

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  • Open Access
28 Citations
5,119 Views
20 Pages

The Connection between Absorptive Capacity and Green Innovation: The Function of Board Capital and Environmental Regulation

  • Sohail Ahmad Javeed,
  • Boon Heng Teh,
  • Tze San Ong,
  • Nguyen Thi Phuong Lan,
  • Saravanan Muthaiyah and
  • Rashid Latief

The stress of environmental regulations, sustainable development objectives, and global warming is becoming more prominent now. Most studies conclude that the industrial sector is largely at fault and under tremendous pressure to address these climat...

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  • Open Access
19 Citations
3,882 Views
14 Pages

3 November 2021

Environmental management studies have proposed that firms can achieve substantial cost advantages over competitors and enhance their competitive positions by implementing an environmental management system (EMS). This study further investigates strat...

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2 Citations
4,044 Views
20 Pages

19 April 2025

The purpose of this study was to investigate the factors affecting digital entrepreneurial orientation, technology absorptive capacity, and digital innovation in business performance. To achieve the purpose of research, digital entrepreneurial orient...

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  • Open Access
33 Citations
5,846 Views
23 Pages

18 September 2019

The importance of external knowledge acquisition for innovation by firms is well established. In particular, there has been an increasing focus on the two distinct modes of firms’ external search strategies, which have a differential effect on...

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601 Views
19 Pages

23 April 2025

Marine innovation, as a fundamental driving force behind the development of the marine economy, is crucial for the realization of the maritime power strategy. The reports from the 19th and 20th National Congresses of the Communist Party of China expl...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,628 Views
26 Pages

A Framework for the Innovation Management Capacity: Empirical Evidence from the Porto Digital Cluster in Brazil

  • Sidney de Lima Pinto,
  • Jorge Muniz,
  • Claudia Regina de Freitas and
  • José Roberto Dale Luche

This study develops and validates an innovation management framework based on the integration of dynamic capabilities and multidimensional innovation process factors. A mixed-methods approach was employed, combining a quantitative survey of 267 respo...

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  • Open Access
27 Citations
5,892 Views
27 Pages

5 April 2018

This research investigates the impact of the internal social network on new venture’s innovation by building a comprehensive structural equation modeling (SEM) that integrates three streams of research: internal social network, innovation, and absorp...

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  • Open Access
26 Citations
4,254 Views
23 Pages

9 April 2020

Innovation is the primary driving force for development and the core of green, healthy, and sustainable economic development. This paper researches the spatial effect of absorptive capacity on regional innovation capacity from the perspective of know...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,635 Views
28 Pages

This paper endeavors to construct an evaluative framework to assess the level of development in advanced manufacturing across the 31 provinces in China from 2003 to 2021. Additionally, it aims to investigate the impact of industrial synergy agglomera...

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  • Open Access
101 Citations
11,801 Views
25 Pages

11 March 2018

Organizational innovation is increasingly mandatory for firms to overcome their competitors. Organizational innovation is especially relevant in today’s dynamic and turbulent environments, where other internal variables—such as technological assets,...

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  • Open Access
45 Citations
7,290 Views
14 Pages

21 May 2018

This paper examines the investment behavior of research and development (R&D) under uncertainty. We assume that there is a heterogeneous effect of uncertainty on R&D investment depending on characteristics of a firm. According to the results,...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,367 Views
16 Pages

29 November 2022

The characteristics of the Portuguese agro-industrial sector limit the adoption and promotion of innovation. A business-sector characterisation was carried out to identify needs and business behaviour. Capacity, in terms of skills and knowledge, moti...

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3 Citations
2,135 Views
21 Pages

While prior research has established direct relationships between strategic risk integration and ESG performance in banking, critical gaps remain in understanding the transformation mechanisms, particularly in emerging markets. This study investigate...

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8 Citations
2,550 Views
17 Pages

14 September 2022

This paper analyzes the impact of technology innovation on capacity utilization of enterprises located in the Yangtze River Economic Belt through logic reasoning and empirical modeling. Our analysis shows that the mechanism of how technology innovati...

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  • Open Access
166 Citations
14,863 Views
14 Pages

26 January 2018

Using a survey of 324 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) of the Yangtze River Delta in China, this study discusses the relationship between entrepreneurial orientation, absorptive capacity, environmental dynamism, and corporate technological i...

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  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,349 Views
25 Pages

25 February 2022

Family farmers and grassroots innovations can enable transitions to more sustainable food systems. The study explores the roles umbrella farmers’ organizations play in building transformative capacity through grassroots innovations in rural foo...

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109 Citations
11,932 Views
20 Pages

Potential and Realized Absorptive Capacity as Complementary Drivers of Green Product and Process Innovation Performance

  • Gema Albort-Morant,
  • Jörg Henseler,
  • Gabriel Cepeda-Carrión and
  • Antonio L. Leal-Rodríguez

1 February 2018

Nowadays, companies need to absorb new knowledge from external sources to grasp environmental issues. However, the internal mechanisms through which external knowledge is turned into green innovations remain scarcely addressed. Hence, this paper aims...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,236 Views
30 Pages

28 March 2024

This paper looks into the determinants of national innovation performance from the perspective of policy regime and establishes a theoretical model on how a country’s dual Science, Technology, and Innovation (STI) policy regimes, democratic and...

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  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,625 Views
18 Pages

30 November 2022

The collaborative innovation of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region is faced with prominent problems such as the large gap in innovation resources and capability. In addition, science and technology (S&T) finance provides the approach to promote the flo...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,282 Views
28 Pages

9 January 2025

Focusing on the fit between external environmental demands and internal capabilities (external fit), as well as the fit among internal capabilities (internal fit) from a dynamic capabilities perspective, this study explores the mechanisms through whi...

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  • Open Access
20 Citations
5,154 Views
18 Pages

31 October 2018

Innovation is a key driver for organizations to survive and thrive in increasingly hyper-competitive markets. This study investigates the effects of boundary-spanning search on innovation capability. Specifically, it examines the mediating and modera...

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  • Open Access
34 Citations
7,106 Views
17 Pages

18 August 2019

This paper aims to contribute to the understanding of the potential of Social Innovation (SI) for social transformation. Being a popular concept, SI has been discussed for decades, increasingly recognized for its complexity. A systematic review of th...

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13 Citations
9,437 Views
19 Pages

Assessing the Regional Innovation System’s Absorptive Capacity: The Approach of a Smart Region in a Small Country

  • Robertas Jucevičius,
  • Vita Juknevičienė,
  • Jurgita Mikolaitytė and
  • Diana Šaparnienė

24 March 2017

Vitality of a smart region depends on the network of closely interconnected actors (individuals and institutions) seeking common goals of development and their capacities to ensure effective knowledge creation and exploitation. This network (a region...

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