Organizational learning scholarship has shown that experience accumulates in
manufacturing operations over time, affecting organizational productivity. To date, we have a …

Searching for the most rewarding sources of innovative ideas remains a key challenge in
management of technological innovation. Yet, little is known about which combinations of …

Building on the theories of knowledge recombination, we argue that the external acquisition
of technologies acts as a boundary spanning mechanism that impacts on the recipient …

Our research examines the effect of the compositional quality of firms' direct and indirect
network ties on their innovation performance in a licensing context. It addresses the …

A major sustainability challenge in European agriculture is to develop legume production.
But organizing new legume supply-chains is a knowledge-intensive process, due to low past …

We study whether past cooperation activities make firms more likely to use disembodied
technology licensed by other firms. Using empirical evidence from the PITEC database, a …

China became the second-largest economy behind the USA in 2010. While there is quite
some macroeconomic research documenting the technological catching-up of China as a …

Over the years, the literature on management has advanced in the understanding of the
relationship between technology transfer, absorptive capacity and organisational …

This paper explores how interfirm variations in their in-licensed technology portfolios
influence subsequent innovation performance. Existing studies mainly assume licensed …

As the experiences of newly industrialized economies have shown, R&D and knowledge
diffusion can play a crucial role in spurring the innovation capacity and productivity of …