Search patterns and absorptive capacity: Low- and high-technology sectors in European countries

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Specialized Search and Innovation Performance – Evidence Across Europe (2010, unknown): “Thus, the success of a firm’s specialized search strategy may be altered by the characteristics of the local knowledge environment (Grimpe and Sofka, 2009; Van den Bosch et al., 1999).”
Absorptive capacity, innovation, and financial performance (2011, background): “…intensity (i.e., R&D expenditures divided by sales) (Cohen and Levinthal, 1990; Tsai, 2001) to the number of employees with university education (Grimpe and Sofka, 2009), the proportion of scientific and technical personnel relative to the total number of employees (Spanos and Voudouris, 2009),…”
The paradox of openness: Appropriability, external search and collaboration (2014, methodology): “Following Laursen and Salter (2004; 2006), this measure has been used in numerous studies of open innovation to proxy for firm-level openness (see for example, Tether and Tajar, 2008; Grimpe and Sofka, 2009; Lee et al., 2010; Leiponen and Helfat, 2010; Garriga et al., 2013; Love et al., 2013).”
Ready to Be Open? Explaining the Firm-Level Barriers to Benefiting from Openness to External Knowledge (2017, unknown): “More specifically, we examine how a lack of qualified personnel dedicated to innovation in the in-sourcing firm can be an important barrier to benefiting from openness (Grimpe and Sofka, 2009; Tether and Tajar, 2008).”