Strategic Alliance Networks and Innovation: A Deterministic and Voluntaristic View Combined

Determinants of Alliance Portfolio Complexity and its Effect on Innovative Performance of Companies

“…Those firms rather replicate their existing ties within their local community than search for new ones (Gulati, 1995(Gulati, , 1998Walker et al, 1997). Therefore this pattern of repeated alliance formation is based on a local search process that facilitates exploitation and mimics behaviour among firms that eventually develop similar technological skills and know-how (Gilsing et al, 2007;Knoke and Kuklinski, 1982 Engagement in multiple cooperative agreements allows firms to exploit synergetic effects between these strategies --forming a new alliance in one type of R&D linkages can enhance the effectiveness of other existing R&D collaborations. Such a synergy, or complementarity, has been formally defined by Milgrom and Roberts (1990) and is assumed to exist if the implementation of one practice or strategy increases the marginal return to other practices.…”

Social Networks and the entrepreneurial process in molecular biotechnology in Portugal: From science to industry

“…Our proposal is that the links maintained with individuals from trajectory organisations configure a potential network, to which the entrepreneurs may or may not resort during the process of firm creation and early development. Thus, it is to be expected that only a subset of this potential network will be effectively mobilised for firm's purposes becoming part of the firm's network and so, that entrepreneurs will actively shape this network (Gilsing et al, 2007). It is therefore important to understand whether and to what extent entrepreneurs activate their social capital.…”

Strategic partnerships of the renewable energy firms in Portugal

“…A strategic technology partnership is a special kind of relationship since it affects the long term goals of the companies (Gilsing, Lemmens and Duysters, 2007). It is defined as "the establishment of cooperative agreements aimed at joint innovative efforts or technology transfer that can have a lasting effect on the product-market positioning of the participating companies" (Hagedoorn and Schakenraad, 1994:291).…”

“…It is defined as "the establishment of cooperative agreements aimed at joint innovative efforts or technology transfer that can have a lasting effect on the product-market positioning of the participating companies" (Hagedoorn and Schakenraad, 1994:291). They have grown at an unprecedented scale over the last decades, due to a combination of elements including increasing complexity and uncertainty of the innovation process, technological turbulence, necessity of rapid time-to market strategy and need to resort to a wide array of technological knowledge domains (Hagedoorn and Schakenraad, 1994;and Gilsing, Lemmens and Duysters, 2007). Firms intentionally build and manage these partnerships to access resources (e.g.…”