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Shaping innovation in European knowledge-intensive business services

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This paper focuses on the innovation performance of the knowledge-intensive business service (KIBS) industries in Europe. The analysis is based on firm-level data from the Fourth Community Innovation Survey by Eurostat. It explores a set of innovation-related variables, which accounts for 9,732 KIBS organisations within the 27 Member States. Results highlight the relatively high innovative profile of KIBS as well as their cooperative nature towards external partners in undertaking their innovation processes, with important implications in terms of knowledge management and innovation policy-making.

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  1. Department of Organization, Human Resource Management and General Management, Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus, Erich-Weinert-Straße 1, 03046, Cottbus, Germany

    Christiane Hipp

  2. Department of Business Administration, Carlos III University of Madrid, C/Madrid 126, 28903, Getafe, Madrid, Spain

    Jorge Gallego

  3. Department of Economics and Business, University of Alcala, Plaza de la Victoria 2, 28802, Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain

    Luis Rubalcaba

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Hipp, C., Gallego, J. & Rubalcaba, L. Shaping innovation in European knowledge-intensive business services. Serv Bus 9, 41–55 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11628-013-0217-7

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