The structure of alliance networks strongly influences their potential for knowledge creation. Dense local clustering provides transmission capacity in the network by fostering communication and cooperation while non-redundant connections contract the distance between firms and give the network...

"Innovation is a beautiful thing. It is a force with both aesthetic and pragmatic appeal: It unleashes our creative spirit, opening our minds to hitherto undreamed of possibilities, while accelerating economic growth and providing advances in such crucial human endeavors as medicine,...

This book approaches the subject of innovation management as a strategic process. It is organized to mirror the strategic management process used in most strategy textbooks, progressing from assessing the competitive dynamics of a situation to strategy formulation, to strategy implementation

This study examines the conditions under which portfolios of corporate venture capital (CVC) relationships influence corporate investor innovation performance. We investigate this question using longitudinal data on CVC investment portfolios of 40 telecommunications equipment manufacturers. We...

Existing research provides little insight into how social influence affects the adoption and diffusion of compet-ing innovative artifacts and how the experiences of organizational members who have worked with particular innovations in their previous employers affect their current...

There is growing consensus that the goal of antitrust enforcement should be to manage for dynamic efficiency, i.e., an appropriate balance between short-run static efficiencies such as reducing costs and maximizing consumer surplus, and the longer term gains that arise from innovation. However,...