of the agreement form an information network. The network's members optimally specialize based on their opportunities in … particular aspects of the technology or in expanding or managing the network. Endogenously there are incentives to standardize on … designs and descriptions of the technology. A tinkerer in the network who sees an opportunity to produce a profitable product …

linked fields. Our analysis uses 1.8 million U.S. patents and their citation properties to map the innovation network and its … strength. Past innovation network structures are calculated using citation patterns across technology classes during 1975 …-1994. The interaction of this pre-existing network structure with patent growth in upstream technology fields has strong …

tacit knowledge and incomplete patents. -- Patent Pools ; Research and Development ; Innovation ; Tacit Knowledge …

knowledge, these companies suffer from lack of other resources, in particular, time, management experience and investment … innovation is one of the drivers of open innovation in terms of size of the knowledge pool (themes) and diversity of this pool … (different partners). However, diversity in the knowledge pool tends to influence growth of the companies negatively. Accordingly …