Schoenmakers, Wilfred; Duysters, Geert; Vanhaverbeke, Wim - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2008
inventions are to a higher degree based on existing knowledge than non-radical inventions. Also the combination of emergent and … mature knowledge is more important for radical inventions. A further result that follows from our analysis is that radical … inventions are induced by the recombination over more knowledge domains as compared to non-radical inventions. Our research hints …