Like in many industries, knowledge management is the key to the successful developments
of new drugs and other commercialized products in the pharmaceutical sector. Prior studies …

In view of the valuable and heterogeneous roles of science in technological development,
we investigate the extent to which the cognitive distance and geographical boundary …

The application of emerging knowledge is crucial for innovation by firms competing in
science and technology‐intensive industries. However, relatively little is known about how …

In this paper, knowledge creation is considered as a path-dependent evolutionary process
that involves recombining knowledge spread over time. The findings of the paper suggest …

This paper addresses the calls for greater research on the antecedents of technological
acquisitions by exploring a mechanism that drives both acquisition decision and target …

Purpose Technology acquisition is a common phenomenon of acquiring external
knowledge, but we have a limited understanding of conditions in which the acquirer …

This paper investigates different types of innovations (from radical to incremental) in the
pharmaceutical industry by studying bibliometric data of drugs approved by the United …

Localization of knowledge flows has been extensively examined in the literature on
innovation. However, almost all previous research has focused on technological knowledge …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of geographic location of research-
intensive firms in the ability to generate new research and products, which consequently …

This paper examines whether interpersonal networks help explain two widely documented
patterns of knowledge diffusion:(1) geographic localization of knowledge flows, and (2) …