“…Empirical studies exploring the effect of OI on innovativeness are fairly distributed among small, medium and large firms. Many of them analysed different industries (Czarnitzki & Thorwarth, 2012;Ebersberger, Bloch, Herstad, & Van De Velde, 2012;Greco, Grimaldi, & Cricelli, 2016;Laursen & Salter, 2006), while others focused on high-tech or R&D intensive ones (Belussi, Sammarra, & Sedita, 2008;Caputo, Lamberti, Cammarano, & Michelino, 2016;Henttonen, Ritala, & Jauhiainen, 2011;Hurmelinna-Laukkanen, Olander, Blomqvist, & Panfilii, 2012).…”