Something Old, Something New: A Longitudinal Study of Search Behavior and New Product Introduction

Katila, Riitta; Ahuja, Gautam

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“…Inbound open innovation refers to the ex-ante processes of actively in-sourcing and absorbing knowledge from external environment to supplement a firm's internal R&D, while outbound open innovation represents the ex-post and purposeful activities to facilitate external commercialisation paths for creative ideas and knowledge generated in house (Chesbrough, 2006;Spithoven, Clarysse and Knockaert, 2011) First is the wide range use of external knowledge sourcing, including through the use of inter-firm linkages (with suppliers, customers and potentially competitors) and with external knowledge generating agencies (universities, research institutes and the like) (Katila and Ahuja, 2002;Laursen and Salter, 2006). This dimension is also emphasised by van de Vrande, Vanhaverbeke and Gassmann (2010) as an urgent need to integrate open innovation in the existing literature about technology transaction and cooperation/alliances with innovation partners.…”

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Does open innovation apply to China? Exploring the contingent role of external knowledge sources and internal absorptive capacity in Chinese large firms and SMEs

Huang

Rice

Martin

2015

Journal of Management & Organization

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While 'open innovation' is often considered to be an organisational strategy with universal application, the generalisability of this set of arrangements to organisations operating within emerging economies has yet to be fully explored. This study provides empirical evidence of its importance within a substantial sample of Chinese large firms and SMEs. Using Tobit regression analysis, our findings indicate that external knowledge sources from inter-firm networking are more important in creating the benefits of open innovation for Chinese SMEs than their larger peers. Linkages to university and research institutes generally have few direct effects on the innovation performance of both large and small firms in China. However, the role of universities and research institutes is shown to be important among our large firm sample when combined with evident internal absorptive capacity. This interaction is generally limited to our large firm sample, and is not as evident among small firms. Our study indicates that the barriers to the adoption of open innovation by Chinese firms might be largely related to the comparatively weak domestic research expertise and limited organisational absorptive capabilities, with this most particularly evident for SMEs.These findings suggest that, based on this evidence, there is no need for emerging economies like China to mimic the emergence path from closed to open innovation followed by developed countries. Chinese firms will be more likely to garner the benefits available from openness when they develop the capabilities required to identify, assimilate and commercialise knowledge and technologies obtained from external sources.

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Does open innovation apply to China? Exploring the contingent role of external knowledge sources and internal absorptive capacity in Chinese large firms and SMEs

Huang

Rice

Martin

2015

Journal of Management & Organization

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“…In addition, this finding suggests that an R&D portfolio may serve as an integrating mechanism joining novel and extant knowledge. This is similar to Katila and Ahuja (2002), who suggest that useful innovations emerge in particular when an integrating mechanism joins extant and novel perspectives. We think further study of the integrating capability that appears endogenous to firms' R&D partnership portfolio activities is warranted.…”

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R&D partnership portfolios and the inflow of technological knowledge

Frankort¹,

Hagedoorn²,

Letterie³

2011

Industrial and Corporate Change

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This is the unspecified version of the paper.This version of the publication may differ from the final published version. we show that the size of a firm's R&D partnership portfolio and its share of novel partners both have an inverted U-shaped effect on the inflow of technological knowledge from the firm's R&D partners. We also show how these direct effects vary as a function of the level of technological uncertainty within the portfolio. Permanent repository link3

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“…We argue that teaming up for joint R&D activities with the objective to generate new knowledge in an alliance may impact firms patenting activities differently from exchanging existing 6 knowledge between consortium members. In comparison to Katila and Ahuja (2002) who consider existing knowledge to be an important component at the firm level versus searching for new knowledge outside of the firm, we extend the conceptual framework to study the role of exchanging existing knowledge at the alliance level versus creating new knowledge at the alliance level.…”

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Quantity or quality? Knowledge alliances and their effects on patenting

Hottenrott

Lopes-Bento

2014

Ind Corp Change

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Something Old, Something New: A Longitudinal Study of Search Behavior and New Product Introduction

Cited by 1,006 publications

References 40 publications

Does open innovation apply to China? Exploring the contingent role of external knowledge sources and internal absorptive capacity in Chinese large firms and SMEs

Does open innovation apply to China? Exploring the contingent role of external knowledge sources and internal absorptive capacity in Chinese large firms and SMEs

R&D partnership portfolios and the inflow of technological knowledge

Quantity or quality? Knowledge alliances and their effects on patenting

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