Not Invented Here?  Innovation in Company Towns

Agrawal, Ajay; Cockburn, Iain M.; Rosell, Carlos

doi:10.3386/w15437

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“…More open organisational cultures which facilitate internal knowledge sharing and creativity may facilitate the encoding of external knowledge, whereas more closed or rigid cultures may make this more difficult (Lucas and Goh 2009). Attitudinal differences, reflecting a not-invented-here syndrome, may also create barriers to encoding potentially useful external knowledge (Agrawal, Cockburn, and Rosell 2010). Structural factors may also be important in shaping encoding capacity.…”

Section: Encoding Capacitymentioning

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“…There is for example, substantial evidence of the complementary roles of external knowledge and internal R&D (Cassiman and Veugelers 2006;Lichtenthaler and Lichtenthaler 2009;Miravete and Permias 2004). Negative moderating effects may also be possible, however, where internal knowledge sharing is ineffective or cultural barriers such as the Not-Invented-Here syndrome exist to the adoption of external knowledge (Agrawal, Cockburn, and Rosell 2010). Finally, encoding capacity itself will also be shaped by firms' innovation ambition.…”

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Knowledge context, learning and innovation: an integrating framework

Roper

Love

2017

Industry and Innovation

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In this conceptual paper, we develop a framework which identifies those elements of firms' knowledge context which are important for innovation, and the mechanisms through which that knowledge impacts on firms' innovation performance. We make four main contributions to the existing literature. First, our characterisation of knowledge context provides the basis for a more specific identification of which elements of firms' knowledge environment are important for innovation, discriminating between spatial, sectoral and network influences. Second, we reflect the role of innovation ambition in shaping firms' knowledge search strategies. Third, we differentiate between firms' interactive and non-interactive knowledge search activities and recognise that these may be complemented by unanticipated and serendipitous knowledge spillovers. Finally, we employ the notion of encoding capacity to reflect firms' internal ability to assimilate and apply external knowledge, and clarify its distinctiveness from the more general concept of absorptive capacity. Our framework provides an integrating mechanism for existing empirical studies, and suggests a number of new research directions related to the determinants of innovation performance and the heterogeneity of innovation outcomes.

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Knowledge context, learning and innovation: an integrating framework

Roper

Love

2017

Industry and Innovation

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“…This particular set of tools has been suggested by various studies on restructuring single-industry towns as the most efficient long-term strategy [Agrawal et al, 2010;Anas, Xiong, 2005;Bartik, 2009;Caravelis, Russell, 2001;Gebauer et al, 2003;Maier, Trippl, 2011;Todtling, Trippl, 2004;Totzer, Gigler, 2005;Trippl, Otto, 2009].…”

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Single-Industry Towns of Russia: Lock-In and Drivers of Innovative Search

Zamyatina¹,

Pilyasov²

2016

Foresight and STI Governance

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T he problem of single-industry towns has become increasingly relevant recently in light of the crises in the Russian and global economy. The present article attempts to examine this issue by using methodological approaches adopted internationally to analyse singleindustry towns. At the heart of these approaches is the concept of path dependence, coupled with a method to identify the factors blocking innovative search in the so-called new industrial policy. The authors critically reevaluate the situation in single-industry towns, in contrast to the existing assessments that are widespread in Russian language research. Rather than analysing industrial sectoral specialization, they suggest studying the core of economic Keywords: single-industry towns; lock-in in innovative development; innovative search; local community; new industrial policy; entrepreneurship; path dependence development i.e. a city's capacity to upgrade its local production system and to initiate innovative search.The article describes the main principles of new industrial policy, which is vulnerable not so much to a narrow specialization but primarily to a package of technological, political, and cognitive lock-ins. These lock-ins prevent the growth of an innovative sector in single-industry towns and stop local communities from being able to adapt to changing economic conditions. The authors show the possibilities and concrete directions of innovative search in various singleindustry towns in Russia. They give recommendations on the key policy instruments that can help overcome the existing lock-ins in monoprofile Russian towns.

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“…This propensity to patent does not in ‡uence our primary equilibrium analysis above, but its allows for reporting di¤erences across types. 12 …”

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Growth Through Heterogeneous Innovations

Akcigit¹,

Kerr²

2010

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We study how exploration versus exploitation innovations impact economic growth through a tractable endogenous growth framework that contains multiple innovation sizes, multi-product firms, and entry/exit. Firms invest in exploration R&D to acquire new product lines and exploitation R&D to improve their existing product lines. We model and show empirically that exploration R&D does not scale as strongly with firm size as exploitation R&D. The resulting framework conforms to many regularities regarding innovation and growth differences across the firm size distribution. We also incorporate patent citations into our theoretical framework. The framework generates a simple test using patent citations that indicates that entrants and small firms have relatively higher growth spillover effects.

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Not Invented Here? Innovation in Company Towns

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Knowledge context, learning and innovation: an integrating framework

Knowledge context, learning and innovation: an integrating framework

Single-Industry Towns of Russia: Lock-In and Drivers of Innovative Search

Growth Through Heterogeneous Innovations

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