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The study investigates how innovation barriers can transform into product and process innovations through various types of collaboration.

When barriers enable: reconsidering the role of innovation constraints in Central and Eastern European economies

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Research examines collaboration's role in enhancing product innovations in CEE firms, suggesting value chain links improve innovation performance.

The study investigates how innovation barriers can transform into product and process innovations through various types of collaboration.
Analyzed firm-level data from the Community Innovation Survey (CIS) involving 4,230 firms in CEE nations.
Employed Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) to assess innovation barriers and collaborations.
Conducted a multi-group comparison between domestic and foreign partners' collaborations.
Value-chain collaborations significantly enhance process innovation development.
Product innovations require partnerships with public research entities to succeed.
Firms engaged with foreign partners show greater benefits in product novelty via public research collaborations.

Brozkova et al. (2026) studied this question.

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Research examines collaboration's role in enhancing product innovations in CEE firms, suggesting value chain links improve innovation performance.