(Universidad Miguel Hernández, 2017) Zouaghi, Ferdaous; Sánchez García, Mercedes; García Martínez, Marian; Gestión de Empresas; Enpresen Kudeaketa; Institute for Advanced Research in Business and Economics - INARBE
Co-operation may become necessary in food sector because internal resources are insufficient to monitor
their partners. This study examines how EU food SMEs uses their networks and how SMEs managers can
operationally leverage the value created by strategic alliances into commercially viable products. More
importantly, we emphasize that the effects of collaboration partners on innovation performance can be
achieved not only directly, but also via the indirect effect of firm¿s intellectual capital to enhance
cross-border knowledge transfer. Using two waves of the European Community Innovation Survey
(Cis-2010 and Cis-2012), those research findings are expected to provide SME food firms the
availability to better reorganize their external knowledge needs when different partners are involved.