Whereas recent research on organizational innovation suggests that there is an ecology of
roles supporting the innovation process, the majority of network research has concentrated …

The goal of this article is to assess the state of scholarly research on the role of networks in
the innovation process. It begins with a review of the factors that have triggered the …

Abstract Research Summary In this paper, we contribute to research on networks and
innovation by distinguishing between instrumental and affective ties and assessing their …

Innovation in firms is doubly embedded: in a social network of collaborations between
researchers, and in a knowledge network composed of linkages between knowledge …

Conceptualizing new knowledge development as a process of search and recombination,
we suggest that a focus on individual productivity alone presents an undersocialized view of …

Innovation is often thought of as an outcome. In this chapter, we review the literatures on
innovation processes pertaining to the invention, development, and implementation of ideas …

Research summary: Innovation requires inventors to have both new knowledge and the
ability to combine and configure knowledge (ie, combinatory knowledge), and such …

The perspective of this paper is that variation in commercially successful radical
product/process innovations among science-based industrial sectors can be explored by …

Abstract Research Summary While innovation has increasingly become a collaborative
effort, there is little consensus in research about what types of team configurations might be …

Scholars have given increased attention to organizational networks as an important
component of technological innovation. Although a significant body of research has …