In addition to generating innovations, research and development (R&D) increases a firm's capacity to utilize existing information found within its environment. Although much research focuses on new innovation R&D, little research exists regarding the role that R&D plays in a firm's learning...

Discusses the notion that the ability to exploit external knowledge is crucial to a firm's innovative capabilities. In addition, it is argued that the ability to evaluate and use outside knowledge is largely a function of the level of prior related knowledge--i.e., absorptive capacity. Prior...

This book addresses central issues in evolutionary and Schumpeterian accounts of industrial competition, learning, and innovation. It contains a collection of twelve papers which are oriented toward exploring methodological issues in evolutionary and related scholarship. Reflecting the diversity...