Seek and you shall find: the role of exploitive and explorative search in a biotechnology firm’s patent claims

Ng, Desmond; Sanchez-Aragon, Leonardo; Huseynov, Samir

doi:10.22434/ifamr2018.0097

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“…Yet, in light of these advantages, additional data sources were also integrated into this study's 2005 BioScan data. In particular, as AC has been closely associated with a firm's patent activity (Grigoriou and Rothaermel, 2017;Kostopoulos et al, 2011;Ng et al, 2019)…”

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“…3. R&D activity involving the number of patent applications, No_of_Patent_App (Kostopoulos et al, 2011;Ng et al, 2019); and 4. listing of its different areas of therapeutic expertise, DIV_Exp (Ng, 2011a;Ng et al, 2019;Rothaermel and Deeds, 2004).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The M&A variable was constructed by aggregating the number of merger and acquisition activities reported in the BioScan database (Ng, 2011a(Ng, , 2011bNg et al, 2019). A firm's age, Firm_Age, is included to control for path-dependent effects (Ng, 2011a(Ng, , 2011bXie et al, 2018).…”

Section: Measures: Dependent Variablementioning

confidence: 99%

“…For instance, by recognizing the valued uses of external information, assimilation internalizes only external knowledge that is similar to a firm’s internal experiences. This assimilation promotes an application that not only reinforces a firm’s specialized expertise, but it also enables the firm to commercialize or appropriate the benefits of this assimilated information (Cohen and Levinthal, 1990; Ng et al , 2019; Todorova and Durisin, 2007). By engaging in this assimilation process, AC has been widely recognized in OI research for developing a firm’s competitive advantage in innovation (Table 1).…”

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“…, 2005 patent application data from the U.S.P.T.O database was collected. Finally, 2005 financial data was drawn from the Mergent database in which data involving a firm's revenues, assets, R&D expenditures and four-digit standard industrial classification (SIC) information(Cohen and Levinthal, 1990;Ng et al, 2019;Rothaermel and Alexandre, 2009) were also included.Through these additions, a 2005 BioScan sample consisting of 297 biotechnology firms spanning 2913 alliance agreements was available for empirical examination. This study's sample offers greater coverage of firms than comparable studies.…”

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Putting the cart (antecedents) before the horse (absorptive capacity): the role of competitive antecedents to the absorptive capacity innovation process

Sanchez-Aragon

2021

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Purpose The purpose of this study is to theoretically and empirically advance a concept of competitive antecedents to absorptive capacity (AC) research and to explain their relationship to a firm’s innovative performance. A firm’s competitive antecedents involve a relative advantage in a firm’s ability to access external knowledge – (i.e. relative advantage in external knowledge flows) – and a relative advantage in appropriating these external knowledge flows (i.e. relative advantage in appropriability regime). Design/methodology/approach By drawing on network and market share explanations, hypotheses were developed in which a firm’s AC is argued to mediate the influence of these competitive antecedents on a firm’s innovations. In using linear and negative binomial estimation methods, a mediation analysis of the US biotechnology industry was conducted. Findings A firm’s competitive antecedents have a positive influence on a firm’s AC and that these influences indirectly impact a biotechnology firm’s product innovations. Originality/value While a firm’s innovation is widely attributed to its AC, this study’s concept of competitive antecedents shows that a firm’s competitive advantage lies upstream from its AC.

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Connecting the unconnected: Analogies and the development of insight in the absorptive capacity process

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2023

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While innovation has been widely attributed to a firm's absorptive capacity (AC), product and marketing studies have found that insight is central to a firm's creativity and innovation. Creativity and innovation studies have found that individuals often relate to external information through an analogical reasoning process and that this process develops insight into a firm's innovation. Although the AC concept has been associated with this insight, it however faces significant difficulties explaining its development. This is because AC has been defined by a social structure where myopic tendencies can preclude its individual members from assimilating new external experiences. As insight often requires an exposure to previously unconnected or unrelated experiences, this myopia can reduce a firm's ability to produce insight in its AC process. By drawing on an individual level analogical reasoning process, this study argues that a firm's coherence and uniqueness offer a social structure that not only leverages this individual level analogical reasoning process but also produces an assimilation that develops insight in the firm's AC process. In using a sample of US biotechnology firms, this study finds empirical support for these arguments to explain the development of insight in ways not possible with AC explanations.

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The Influence of Ambidextrous Knowledge Search on Technological Innovation: The Mediating Role of Knowledge Base

Gao,

2023

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As an effective means of acquiring knowledge resources, knowledge search is an important driving force for enterprises to obtain competitive advantages. Based on ambidextrous theory, organizational search theory and knowledge base theory, this study constructs a theoretical framework for the effect of ambidextrous knowledge search on technological innovation performance. And empirically tests the mediating mechanism of knowledge base with the data of knowledge-intensive enterprises. The results show that both exploratory and exploitative search have positive effects on technological innovation performance, and significantly, the positive impact of exploratory searches was higher than that of exploitative searches. Moreover, the balance and combination of knowledge search have a significant positive impact on technological innovation performance respectively. However, the effect of combination is stronger when two search dimensions are considered at the same time. There is a mediating effect between ambidextrous knowledge search and technological innovation performance. Specifically speaking, knowledge base plays a complete mediating role for ambidextrous balance whereas a partial mediating role for ambidextrous combination. The conclusions reveal the mechanism of ambidextrous knowledge search, which can provide a certain theoretical guidance for enterprises to search external knowledge and improve innovation practice.

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Seek and you shall find: the role of exploitive and explorative search in a biotechnology firm’s patent claims

Cited by 4 publications

References 45 publications

Putting the cart (antecedents) before the horse (absorptive capacity): the role of competitive antecedents to the absorptive capacity innovation process

Putting the cart (antecedents) before the horse (absorptive capacity): the role of competitive antecedents to the absorptive capacity innovation process

Connecting the unconnected: Analogies and the development of insight in the absorptive capacity process

The Influence of Ambidextrous Knowledge Search on Technological Innovation: The Mediating Role of Knowledge Base

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