Social Network Analysis for Tacit Knowledge Management in Universities

Dima, Alina Mihaela; Vasilache, Simona

doi:10.1007/s13132-013-0151-x

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“…who invented what and when, can provide the basis for social network analysis to visualise and streamline the interpretation of social dynamics (Meyer 2002, Binz et al 2014, Liu et al 2022. The underlying assumption of knowledge transfer is that through collaborative innovation activity, social interactions facilitate the flow of (implicit) knowledge (see (Howells 1996, Breschi and Lissoni 2009, Dima and Vasilache 2015 for more information). a data set comprising 152918 patent families 9 filed between 1915 and 2020.…”

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“…While a sizable amount of literature has investigated knowledge transfers within or across organisations (e.g. Song et al 2003, Etzkowitz 2008, Dima and Vasilache 2015, Isaksen and Trippl 2017, other studies have focussed on the spatial dimension, such as regional (e.g. Almeida and Kogut 1999) and 7 In this context, human knowledge refers to the capacity to invoke technological change, including on an organisational level (Lema and Lema 2012).…”

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Globalising innovation through co-inventions–the success case of the Korean lithium-ion battery industry

Peiseler,

Jun,

Schmid

et al. 2024

Environ. Res. Lett.

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Radical innovations can shift the global competitiveness of entire nations. While countries typically struggle to absorb knowledge about novel technologies quickly, in which knowledge tends to be spatially sticky, an important exception is the fast catch-up of the Korean Li-ion battery (LIB) industry from Japan in the early 2000s. In this paper, we conduct an exploratory case study on this surprising success story. Focussing on patent co-inventions between Korea and Japan, we investigate their significance, as well as underlying types of co-inventions and types of transferred knowledge. To this end, we proceed in four steps: 1) a Poisson regression model; 2) social network analyses; 3) patent inventor tracking and 4) patent coding. Our results indicate that Korean-Japanese co-inventions hold significantly greater influence than other cross-country co-inventions, including with patents without cross-country collaboration. We find a pronounced knowledge-transfer intensity during the early 2000s and observe two types of co-inventions: organisation-level and inventor-level. Predominantly, we observe inventor-level co-inventions, i.e., Korean companies hiring experienced Japanese engineers, that proved important to transferring sticky knowledge. Moreover, while most patents target the design of core battery components, the share of manufacturing patents are – contrary to theoretical expectations – highest during the first half of the observation period. We also discuss our findings and draw implications for policy, industrial and academic players, including industry localisation policies, technology-inherent catch-up strategies and directions for future research.

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Globalising innovation through co-inventions–the success case of the Korean lithium-ion battery industry

Peiseler,

Jun,

Schmid

et al. 2024

Environ. Res. Lett.

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“…Second, the Metaverse was formerly based on PC access and had low consistency due to time and space limits, but thanks to mobile devices that can connect to the Internet at any time, it is now feasible to access the Metaverse anytime, anywhere. People spend more time just on social networking sites (Dima and Vasilache, 2015) like TikTok or YouTube. For example, Roblox registered in April 2021 a total of 202 million active users according to estimates from RTrack (Dean, 2022).…”

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The adoption of the metaverse concepts in Romania

Chinie

Oancea

Todea

2022

Management &Amp; Marketing

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The metaverse is a controversial concept, hyped by some but viewed as a marketing strategy by others. Although the first mentioning of the metaverse dates back to 1992, it has gained attention in the last years, especially after Facebook changed its name to “Meta” in 2021. Based on immersive technologies such as AR and VR, digital interactions and commerce within the virtual world, the metaverse is expected to grow along with its enabling technologies. This article aims to discover the status of the adoption of the metaverse concepts in Romania, among people with digital skills. The analysis was performed based on an online questionnaire, posted on public social media accounts. The results of the study have shown that few people have tried applications within the metaverse, and even fewer have invested in metaverse tokens. People who played RPG or virtual world games seem to have used metaverse applications more than those who have not, thus, this could be a good driver for metaverse adoption. Awareness of the metaverse concept was not a driver of metaverse adoption. However, results show that people who purchase cryptocurrencies and NFTs would also be interested in the metaverse, more than people who have not transacted these digital assets.

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“…Small companies gain, through a quicker market entry, in partnership with international or foreign strategic collaborators, the benefit of having to face lower uncertainties, as well as dispensing them among partners (Swoboda, Meierer, Foscht and Morschett, 2011;Nistoreanu, Dincă and Șchiopu, 2017). Access to a wider array of social, technical, financial, and commercial competitive means and tools has been listed as another highly regarded benefit of signing into strategic international collaborations (Varis et al, 2005;Dima and Vasilache, 2015). This sort of collaborations also supports small companies through knowledge sharing on client and rival companies (Capik and Brockerhoff, 2017), and by stimulating corporate learning and progress (Comi and Eppler, 2009;Dima and Vasilache, 2009).…”

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Connecting the Dots: Exploring the Knowledge-based Antecedents of SMEs’ Profitability and Development via International Ventures

Andrei

Dincă

Mitan

et al. 2021

Management &Amp; Marketing. Challenges for the Knowledge Society

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As shifts occur on the global market and business models adapt to a dynamic environment, the process of business internationalization, as performed by small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), maintains its relevance for academics, professionals, international organizations, and authorities. Studies in the field have emphasized the strategic component of internationalization, linking it to cultivating (sustainable) competitive advantages, to stimulating strategic innovation, to the pursuit of profitability, and to an overall improved performance, taking into account the activities conducted on foreign markets. Based on a survey carried out with over 100 European SMEs in the steel field, this study examines the influences of strategic collaborators (from international business networks), intermediaries (as organizational links to the target stakeholders), and strategic innovation on SMEs’ profitability resulted from international operations, and on the level of business development on foreign markets. The results have shown positive influences among most of the considered factors (i.e., direct collaborators, strategic innovation, international profitability and development), whereas intermediaries have a significant influence only on international profitability and not on SMEs’ development on foreign markets.

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Social Network Analysis for Tacit Knowledge Management in Universities

Cited by 9 publications

References 21 publications

Globalising innovation through co-inventions–the success case of the Korean lithium-ion battery industry

Globalising innovation through co-inventions–the success case of the Korean lithium-ion battery industry

The adoption of the metaverse concepts in Romania

Connecting the Dots: Exploring the Knowledge-based Antecedents of SMEs’ Profitability and Development via International Ventures

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