TY - BOOK AU - Bau, Frank AU - Bentivegna, Thomas AU - Forster, Michael T1 - Ad-hoc Innovation Networks of European SMEs T2 - 12th Interdisciplinary European Conference on Entrepreneurship Research (IECER) CY - Chur, 12. - 14. März Y2 - 2014 AB - An accepted theory in Business Management holds that innovation and networks are positively connected to one another due to a wide range of reasons, as there is a strong body of research detailing this relationship. However, despite this wealth of information, the role of informal innovation networks along with their associated structures and purposes remains unclear. Based on a multiple case study conducted with 28 companies, patterns of informal networks are investigated in this research through which small and medium sized companies are using to accompany their innovation activities. By utilizing a cluster analysis, the results of our paper show a typology of 5 informal innovation network types independently separate based on several innovation-centered factors, including content, geography, cooperation scale, and structure of the network. T4 - A typology of networks based on a multiple case study M4 - Citavi ER -