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Knowledge-Intensive Business Services and Innovation KIBS are firms that provide knowledge-intensive services for other business firms. Since the mid-1990s, interest in KIBS in particular has grown, as reflected in a growing number of publications dealing with their special characteristics (Schricke et al., 2012). KIBS are service companies that provide knowledge inputs mainly to the business processes of other organisations. Examples of KIBS industries include computer services; research and development (R&D) services; legal, accountancy, and management services; architecture, engineering, and technical services; advertising; and market research (Miles, 2005). KIBS combine knowledge from different sources (Hipp, 1999) and are increasingly considered to be major users, originators, and transfer agents of technological and non-technological innovations. They play a major role in creating, gathering, and diffusing organizational, institutional, and social knowledge in other economic sectors (Iden & Methlie, 2012). The KIBS sector has a role as a knowledge-producing, knowledge-using, and knowledge-transforming industrial sector (Schricke et al., 2012). For this reason, Czarnitzki and Spielkamp (2003) characterize KIBS as bridges for innovation. www.timreview.ca

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