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Innovation Propensity in Knowledge Intensive Business Services (KIBS)

, 2016
This research intends to contribute with some insights towards a better understanding of Portuguese KIBS. And analyze their propensity to innovation when comparing with service sector. The chapter firstly presents a literature review about KIBS and secondly, provides a descriptive analysis and a multivariate analysis using CIS2008 (Community Innovation
Pinto, Sandra, Carvalho, Luísa Margarida Cagica, Nunes, Sandra Cristina Dias   +2 more
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Mapping interaction patterns of German IT and engineering services for automotive applications [PDF]

Geographica Helvetica, 2020
This study explores how technical services for automotive applications organize their value-added activities. It does so from the background of a market transition towards electric vehicles and vehicle connectivity. Conceptually, the article combines the
J. Schwabe, M. Hassler
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Closed Clubs and Inclusive Interaction: Acquiring Digitalization Knowledge Through Learning‐by‐Interacting in a Peripheral Innovation System

Growth and Change, Volume 57, Issue 2, June 2026.
ABSTRACT In contrast to traditional perspectives, recent research has highlighted advantages of peripheral environments for innovation, such as enabling certain types of innovation and trust‐based cooperation. Yet, most of this research is of systemic nature, tending to overestimate structural conditions, whereas the characteristics of firms and their ...
Anne‐Sophie Kagel, Lukas Haefner
wiley   +1 more source

The role of knowledge intensive business services in economic development: a bibliometric analysis from Bradford, Lotka and Zipf laws

Gestão & Produção
The international scientific community considers Knowledge Intensive Business Services (KIBS) as one of the main themes related to innovation and economic development.
Ronnie Figueiredo, Osvaldo Quelhas, Júlio Vieira Neto, João J. Ferreira   +3 more
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Innovation Configurations in Knowledge-Intensive Business Services

Foresight and STI Governance, 2017
Knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) industries demonstrate some of the highest levels of innovation in most developed economies. However, these industries are very heterogeneous.
Ian Miles, Veronika Belousova, Nikolay Chichkanov   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Does distance really matters? Assessing the role of KIBS proximity in firm´'s servitization capacity: evidence from the Basque Country

Investigaciones Regionales - Journal of Regional Research, 2020
Servitization strategy is increasingly recognized as a key source of value with important competitive and economic potential across the globe. Over the years, it has been proven to contribute to territorial performance through the provision of services ...
Marco Opazo-Basáez, Lorea Narvaiza Cantín, Jose Antonio Campos   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Spatial concentration of Indian service industries in rural and urban areas: A micro-unit-level analysis

Cogent Economics & Finance, 2023
This paper explores the spatial concentration of 120 service industries in India’s rural and urban areas, covering 33.60 million establishments using Economic census (2013) data at the district level.
Sugam Agarwal, Smruti Ranjan Behera
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Knowledge intensive business service (KIBS) firms' use of visualization for customer participation and knowledge sharing during the service process

Industrial Marketing Management, 2023
Customer participation is central to the service production and delivery processes of knowledge intensive business service firms. The customer can provide knowledge, effort, and decisions on problems and solutions, but the often intangible and abstract service offerings and discussions can be challenging. Recent research suggests that visualization can
Clarke, Ann Højbjerg; id_orcid 0000-0003-1037-0892, Mortensen, Bo, Freytag, Per Vagn   +2 more
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Company Websites: A New Measure of Disclosure

Journal of Accounting Research, Volume 64, Issue 1, Page 81-125, March 2026.
Abstract We propose a new measure of firms' disclosure based on company websites, which are widely available and contain a wealth of information. For a sample of U.S. public firms, we construct our disclosure measure using historical website data, validate it by correlating it with extant measures of disclosure and information asymmetry, and explore ...
ROMAIN BOULLAND, THOMAS BOURVEAU, MATTHIAS BREUER   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Location choice of foreign direct investment in technical KIBS in China: impact of human capital and intellectual property rights protection [PDF]

Journal of Asian Business and Economic Studies
Purpose – This study considers the “technology creation” characteristic of technical knowledge-intensive business services (T-KIBS) and examines how human capital and intellectual property rights (IPR) protection affect the location choice of foreign ...
Shijie Li
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