Research summary. Firms in technology-based settings must mobilize individual knowledge to continuously execute innovative new opportunities. Because knowledge is generally conceptualized at the firm-level, however, we have only a limited understanding of how individual-level knowledge...

Extensive prior literature has studied how young organizations are impacted by and often benefit from embeddedness in key industry networks. Indeed, some research advises that entrepreneurs “don't go it alone” (Baum, Calabrese, and Silverman, 2000). This literature has also highlighted a...

In this paper, we examine how groups of organizations engage in population-level learning in entrepreneurial ecosystems. We specifically analyze how within- and across-group characteristics of organizational groups shape learning, and thereby extend the literature on population-level learning...

This paper examines how organizations collaborate with multiple partners, such as when they develop innovative and complex product platforms like smartphones, servers, and MRI machines that rely on technologies developed by organizations in three or more sectors. Research on multipartner...

In 1945, Vannevar Bush, founder of Raytheon and one-time engineering dean at MIT, delivered a report to the president of the United States that argued for the importance of public support for science, and the importance of science for the future of the nation. The report, Science: The Endless...