Abstract
Innovative performance is influenced both by the origins of the existing knowledge that is
combined to generate innovation and by how economic actors search for new knowledge.
Drawing on a sample of inter-firm dyadic R&D alliances, we found that whereas the integration
of geographically distant knowledge and of organisationally proximate knowledge
in R&D alliances are negatively related to the alliance innovative performance, search span
positively moderates both relationships.We conclude that, in order to make the most of broadspan
searching, firms participating in R&D alliances should integrate geographically distant
but organisationally proximate knowledge. By doing so, firms take advantage of the diversity
and novelty that characterises geographically distant knowledge, while preserving considerable
levels of relative absorptive capacity that are needed for them to understand, internalise,
and effectively use partners’ knowledge from different domains.
Lingua originale | English |
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pagine (da-a) | 466-488 |
Numero di pagine | 23 |
Rivista | TECHNOLOGY ANALYSIS & STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT |
Volume | 27 |
DOI | |
Stato di pubblicazione | Pubblicato - 2015 |
Keywords
- Innovation performance
- Interorganisational knowledge-intensive collaboration
- joint patents
- search span