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

Innovation is typically a group effort, but how exactly do researchers collaborate with one
another to innovate? To answer this question, the authors compiled a dataset identifying all …

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 …

Much current work in management of innovation argues that it is becoming increasingly
necessary for inventors and their firms to exploit information and capabilities outside the firm …

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 …

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 …

Purpose This study aims to clarify the effect of team effort allocation between knowledge
exploration and exploitation on the generation of extremely good or poor innovations. The …

Building upon the exploration and exploitation framework, this study investigates the
antecedents and consequences of inventions that balance new and existing knowledge …

Abstract Research Summary We investigate the implications of the degree assortativity of
intra‐firm networks for firms' innovation performance. We argue that prevalent patterns of …

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