The future of interfirm contract research : opportunities based on prior research and nontraditional tools / Libby Weber, Kyle J. Mayer, Rui Wu -- Reprinted article putting patents in context : exploring knowledge transfer from MIT / Ajay K. Agrawal, Rebecca Henderson -- Alliances and...

Technology-based industries have come to account for ever-greater shares of economic activity during the last 30 years. Recently, rapid, digitally-enabled technological change has generated new opportunities for value creation, enabled new ways of capturing value, and stimulated the emergence of...

The research featured in this volume is devoted to understanding the competitive and collaborative challenges that firms face as they manage interactions with different actors in dynamic environments, in what are coming to be referred to as business or innovation ecosystems. Rapid technological...

In a wide range of circumstances, relational contracts can enable strategies that might not otherwise be possible. While most studies focus on the maintenance and performance of existing relational contracts, this paper explores the origins of interfirm relational contracts, focusing on how...

Part I: Entrepreneurship and entrant-incumbent dynamics. Negotiating for the market / Joshua S. Gans -- Innovation policies / Ramana Nanda and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf -- Nuanced role of relevant prior experience: sales takeoff of disruptive products and product innovation with disrupted technology...

In this volume leading scholars from North America, Europe and Asia come together to explore the topic of business models that takes the demand side (customers and their engagement) seriously. The first part deals with the model dimension of business models. The second part deals with business...

Facilitates discussion about project-based organizations (PBOs) and how they increasingly pervade business dimensions, from R&D and new product development, to the production of complex capital goods and implementation of organizational change across very different industries such as management...