Collective invention occurs when competing organizations share knowledge about the
design and development of new technologies. Such exchange and circulation of ideas and …

While networks are widely thought to enhance regional innovative capability, there exist few
longitudinal studies of their formation and evolution over time. Based on an analysis of all …

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 …

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 …

Relying on a quantitative analysis of the patenting and assignment behavior of inventors, we
highlight the evolution of institutions that encouraged trade in technology and a growing …

We analyze the acquaintances of a sample of academic inventors and their paired controls
to investigate the contribution of social networks to the generation of inventive ideas in …

Sociologists contend that industries can be importantly characterized as sets of interlocking
producer positions. This paper argues that this distinctively relational conception of a market …

Abstract Research Abstract Prior research has argued and shown that firms with more
centralized R&D produce broader innovations, but the organizational mechanisms …

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

Progress in many areas of economics is often limited by the lack of empirical counterparts to
the theoretical constructs that we believe to be important. This problem is particularly severe …