... Publishing Limited 2019 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Innovation Absorptive capacity Tacit knowledge Coordination mechanisms Reverse knowledge transfer Organizational distance Innovation is considered to be one of the most important sources of a firm’s...

... that it is important to understand the benefits that the universities get from participating in the KBUD. This can be through the unique tacit knowledge that emerges in the social innovation process, but their might also be value for the university in terms of two other variables, material resources and symbolic...

... boundary objects resides in the fact that with them companies can create the necessary shared understanding behind the framing and resolution of the emerging problem in innovation activities. Tacit knowledge represents knowledge based on the experience of individuals (Polanyi, 1966). It is expressed...