Showing 1 - 10 of 787
This study proposes an exploratory methodology for analyzing participation in Electronic Networks of Practice, focusing on a network of 500 specialists in breast cancer treatment as a case study. The research addresses a critical gap in understanding how conversational dynamics influence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015073306
We document a series of new facts about the very first firms and patents that form new edges in the directed citation networks across patent categories. We call them pathfinder firms and patents. First, the typical pathfinder firms are very larger firms. Second, the average pathfinder patents...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013238872
This paper is concerned with exploring the implications of replicability issues over the medical innovation process. Each research setting is characterized by a specific level of replicability, variability increasing with the complexity of the testing settings. The study introduces new measures...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011992481
This paper extends the existing literature on strategic R&D alliances by presenting a model of innovation networks with endogenous absorptive capacity. The networks emerge as a result of bilateral cooperation over time between firms occupying different locations in the knowledge space. Social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009784064
This paper extends the existing literature on strategic R&D alliances by presenting a model of innovation networks with endogenous absorptive capacity. The networks emerge as a result of bilateral cooperation over time between firms occupying different locations in the knowledge space. Social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013063870
The present paper proposes a new way of thinking regarding the relation between innovation and knowledge using a Physics-borrowed model, trying to prove whether knowledge resources can "flow" (be percolated) in a network or a grid, in order to be transformed in technological innovation. In the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013074128
This paper studies the asset pricing implications of technology spillover, an important externality in innovation. While technology spillover enables firms to produce a variety of products that better satisfy their customers' love for variety, such benefits are procyclical, and investors...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012854307
common code for evaluation of inventions, creating a communicative standard for negotiation between firms. Codification …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014217537
It is difficult for organizations to effectively manage personal knowledge so it can be mobilized, shared, and rewarded to benefit the organization. The difficulties are compounded in large organizations where people with potentially valuable knowledge are unknown to one another and dispersed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014044032
Firms can use different sources of external knowledge for developing and implementing innovations. Some knowledge is provided deliberately by the source and constitutes intended knowledge spillovers, e.g., knowledge disclosed in publications or patent files. Other sources represent unintended...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014311915